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Electronica: CEO Forum Rambles on IoT Security, Safety
By Peter Clarke, EETimes, Nov. 08, 2016 –
MUNICH - The traditional CEO forum at Electronica continued a theme from two years before: the Internet of Things (IoT) but this time tried to shed some light on how to ensure safety and security.
The moderator Kilian Reichert, started by pointing that a global distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) had taken place only a couple of weeks ago that had paralyzed such Internet dependents as Paypal and Facebook. His opening position was that IoT being a crucial part of automotive but that the idea of vehicles being connected to infrastructure and each other danger lurked around the corner. "The more I am connected the more I am at risk?"
Rick Clemmer, CEO of NXP Semiconductor, pointed out that autonomous driving is not an all-or-nothing offering. Long before fully autonomous driving becomes mainstream and requiring the ultimate in security level 1, 2 and 3 autonomy would be making driving safer, he said. "90 percent of accidents come from human error. It's about the applications and solutions and making driving easier and safer."
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