After all the inspiring stories about the opportunities and possibilities of big data, Kevin Morssink, ethical hacker dropped by E11EVEN in Heerenveen, concluding the meeting with a bombshell. ,,It is important to secure the data properly. A fence around a data center is not enough, access to the systems in that center must also be well regulated and the network must be well protected against intrusions. We still rely too often on one layer of security,” was his warning.
big science
One of the inspiring stories came from Albert-Jan Boonstra, technical research program manager at our partner ASTRON. He talked about the gigantic amount of data collected by the Dutch radio telescopes, which provides increasing insight into, for example, the origins of our universe. Westerbork (20 million gigabytes in 5 years) and LOFAR (650,000 gigabytes per day) cause an astronomical data flow. ”Setting up and managing this is a challenge in itself."
LINK Cafe
Part of the meeting included a Link Café. In groups, participants discussed the proposition, ‘Big data is meaningless without action. The underlying idea is that collecting big data is not an end in itself, but should lead to action. Although the proposition is an open door, it leads to animated discussions in which the pros and cons balance each other out nicely.
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The full article on this meeting can be downloaded below. Also visit the LINK Magazine website.
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