Sramana Mitra: Switching topics, can you talk about open problems that you recommend entrepreneurs ought to be working on that you’re hearing from customers or you’re observing? Andrew McLennan: That’s a tough one. I’m very focused on what I do. However if I speak outside of my experience, I think wearables is going to be
Andrew McLennan: Hacking cars is essentially a numbers game. What is the risk of your car being hacked when you’re doing 50 miles an hour? The only acceptable answer should be zero. Any other answer that means a non-zero chance of death due to software in your car is unacceptable. That would just kill the
Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch the discussion to Internet of Things. On our blog, we have two series that are related. One is cyber security and the other is Internet of Things. One of the issues that we’ve been hearing about from various people is that there are large swaths of the Internet of Things applications
Sramana Mitra: I have a follow-up question. If you look at the space of security in the context of payments, both mobile payments and desktop payments, who are the major security vendors and what are the differences in the key approaches? You have, of course, just described your approaches. What are the key approaches in
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take a few examples. Let’s take maybe one example from the chip side and one example from the credit card side and talk us through how exactly this works. Andrew McLennan: I’m the software specialist, so I can give you more detail on the software side and less detail on the hardware side.
I am still digging into the issue of vastly enhanced exposure to cyber security threats with the advent of Internet of Things. Here we discuss that and other issues. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Inside Secure. Andrew McLennan: I currently serve as the President of US for