Facebook. Google. Twitter. Our society’s most influential companies are aggregating more digital information than ever before and much is largely unknown about what this may mean for the concept of “privacy” in the future. With companies knowing more about citizens than they know themselves, we are faced with the question of how can we entrust companies to protect this data?

Companies have expanded rapidly, moving their businesses to the cloud without putting the appropriate systems in place in order to protect their information. Current cybersecurity practices have not solved the root cause of the data breach epidemic with a new headline appearing every week featuring a new company publicly exposing private data through a damaging data breach. As technological innovation continues to clash with traditional privacy norms, will a silver bullet security solution emerge to dispel concerns?

UpGuard Director of Cyber Risk Research, Chris Vickery, will take inventory of the state of the security landscape, what he has observed through his research and trends he expects to emerge in the future. What new threats can we expect as our concepts of privacy evolve and how will security philosophies adapt in order to meet the new norm?

About Chris: Chris Vickery is the Director of Cyber Risk Research for UpGuard. Chris has a stunning track record of discovering major data exposures, securing a total of nearly two billion sensitive records to date and preventing malicious data usage.

He has been cited as a cybersecurity expert by The New York Times, Forbes, Reuters, BBC, LA Times, Washington Post, and many other publications. Some examples of his high-profile data discoveries involve entities such as Verizon, Viacom, Donald Trump’s campaign website, branches of the US Department of Defence, Tesla Motors, and many more.

His research and findings have assisted investigations conducted by entities such as the US Federal Trade Commission, FBI, US Secret Service, the State of Kansas, as well as Parliaments in both Canada and the UK. He has spoken at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies, Georgetown University Law Center, and the 2017 RSA San Francisco security conference.