SURGE, The Internet of Everything, and Resilience

Pete O’Dell

Swan Island Networks

Pete.odell@swanisland.net

202-460-9207

Brand Tarnishing Civil Unrest

Terrorism Travel Disruption & Delays

Natural Disasters Severe Weather

Hazardous Materials

Disease

Cyber Threats

Supply Chain Disruption

Blackouts

Crime

People and organizations face a wider

variety of threats than ever before:

Background: Pete O’Dell

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• Author: Cyber 24-7: Risks, Leadership, Sharing: Sound advice for Boards, the C-Suite, and non-technical executives (+2 other books)

• Background: Technology, manufacturing, services, CIO, COO, CEO, board member, entrepreneur, consultant, author, veteran, poor golfer, avid fly fisherman

• www.swanisland.net – TX360 and TIES for Microsoft CityNext: Cloud (Azure) based physical and cyber situational intelligence service. NYC Metropolitan Resilience Network technology provider.

Agenda:

•The future is here now

•The Internet of Everything

•SURGE – how are you going to scale?

•Resilience over adversity

•Q&A/Commentary

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Some food for thought…..

• “There is nothing permanent except change.” – --Heraclitus (540 – 480 B.C.)

• “Today, we are functionally linked together in a vast organic system…The earth is not only becoming covered by myriads of grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope.” --Teilhard de Chardin, 1925

• If you are standing still in a rapidly expanding universe, your plans are going backward!

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The Future is here now!

• Unprecedented adoption of new tech

• Connectivity expanding everywhere

• Costs dropping, capabilities rising

• Disruptive business models (Uber, AirBnB)

• Worldwide Silicon Valley emulation – US and International

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Futures – all accelerating now

• IOT: Sensors, collectors and adjusters

• Drones

• Driverless cars

• Advanced batteries (resilience!)

• Virtual and Augmented Reality

• Big Data and predictive analytics

• Cloud as primary and redundant platform

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Internet of Things/Everything/Systems:

• Smaller and more numerous devices - billions

• Autonomous operation, active and passive

• Sensors, Collectors, Adjusters, Aggregators

• Collected data can be multi-purpose

• Many policy and governance issues still to solve

• Shared access a huge opportunity and challenge

• Some think IOE bigger than today’s internet impact

• Security concerns abound

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Connecting the bits and the atoms….

• Your physical world is becoming attached to bits:• USGS river sensors

• Tornado and Tsunami warnings

• Boston “Street Bump” app

• Building sensor networks

• The IOE will accelerate:• Real time status

• Big data collection

• Cross jurisdictional sharing

• Cloud based Situational Intelligence

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Vinton Cerf (FOTI) – IOT Challenges

• Standardized interfaces - such as IPv6

• Configuration of massive amounts of devices

• Strong access control and authentication

• Privacy and safety

• Instrumentation and feedback

• Dealing with software errors vulnerabilities and software updates

• Opportunities for third party businesses

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How to handle the SURGE?

Normal/Prep

Incident Response

Recovery/Back to Normal

SURGE Magnitude

SURGE! (Prepared and Unprepared)

• Realities:

• Budgets are tight

• Threats are numerous

• Change is constant

• How to multiply your response resources?

• Work more hours (that always works!)

• Repurpose internal assets (planned)

• Contract in advance (proactive)

• Supply chain partners?

• Public/Private support?

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Resilience – One Key to Continuity

• Bigger than your organization

• Understanding interdependencies critical

• Proactive planning – avoid crisis introductions

• Cross organizational information sharing

• Shared SURGE capabilities

• We’re stronger together than separate

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NYC’s Metropolitan Resilience Network

• Public/Private Initiative

• NYU/INTERCEP, Championed by PANYNJ

• Assist business, government and other stakeholders

• Real time communications and collaborative platform

• Regional Common Operating Picture

• High value information sharing/best practices

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Real-time Situational Awareness – Pope NYC

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Thank you.Pete.Odell@swanisland.net

202-460-9207

www.swanisland.net

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