Infosec Europe Does your IT security model take into account things like pacemakers? According to Dr Victoria Baines, speaking at Infosec Europe, "we also perhaps neglect the idea that critical infrastructure might be inside people" as well as merely carried in their pockets.
Raising a thought-provoking talking point during a webinar, Baines invited listeners to think about a person with a pacemaker who leaves a hospital. She said "the traditional approach to infosec is that you protect things within your perimeter" while raising the question: What about items you may be responsible for that leave your perimeter in non-traditional ways?
Baines was speaking during a panel webinar about protecting critical national infrastructure (CNI). She was joined by Airbus CIO Dr Kevin Jones, who opined that cyber-attacks on CNI were much harder for common-or-garden cyber criminals than trying to compromise anything else.
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