Co-founder and CTO at Canary, Chris has been tinkering with computers since he was seven years old. After graduating from Union College (NY) with a degree in Computer Engineering, Chris built embedded hardware and software solutions for military vehicles, scaled a real-time auction website and attempted to disrupt the travel industry with a new kind of fare notification platform.
At Canary, Chris is developing the simplest way for people to connect with their homes and families. He oversees technical strategy and partnerships at the company, while working with the team to drive innovation and future product development. Passionate about robotics, Chris is a former participant and ardent supporter of the FIRST Robotics program, an international organization promoting science and technology to students.
Can The Internet of Things be Secured?
When the entire internet can grind nearly to a halt because IoT devices have been harnessed for a denial of service attack, we have a problem. As we move to secure the vast network of connected devices, what are the biggest threats? As humans increasingly work in symbiotic relationships with powerful machines, how do we define security? Should our digital identity be connected to the “things” around us?
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Techonomy 16
MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
