I was presenting at the colloquium for my Internship in CSS class, so I decided to get there early to listen in on some of the panels attending the conference. The first panel that I listen to was Protecting the enterprise roundtable. This panel included Eric Eid, Matt Knox, Terry Gifford, and Chris Kradjan. They talked about how different sectors of the market get targeted for cyber security attacks everyday, going up to 4000 attacks per day. One of the panel members talked about thousands of attacks everyday to try and steal the patient records. These records are then sold to other clients that use this stolen information for insurance fraud. One of the other panel members, who I believe was from Puget Sound Energy talked about how there multiple attacks everyday at their online service as well. After leaving the panel open to question one of the attendees asked a very interesting question: Why do you put the things on the cloud that aren't meant to be on the cloud? I think he
Shadrach White was one of my favorite guest speaker so far in this class! Besides just the CEO's perspective on different aspects of his business and the journey so far, I really liked his personality and his willingness to thoroughly answer all the questions. I noticed that he is a very glass half full type of person, which sounds like one of the core pre requisites for becoming a CEO. One of the most important thing that I learned from Shadrach was that "People generally like people", it really resonated with me because I tend to give everybody benefit of the doubt and assume that they are a decent human being and treat other human beings with same respect and dignity. He value this trait very much because that is how he got two of his angel investors for his company. Shadrach talked about how important being patient is for an entrepreneur, although he did admit that he was not very patient in his early years. Being patient is very important especially for CEO and Man