Cybersecurity expert discusses threat response

LOST PINES — By 2020, there will be 50 billion Internet-connected devices in use, and “every one of them expands the attack space,” Krish Prabhu, president and chief technology officer at AT&T Labs in Dallas, told scientists Friday at the Texas Research Summit.

“Every one of them can be used to launch an attack,” Prabhu said.

For AT&T, which handles roughly a third of U.S. Internet, mobile and video-viewing traffic, it’s meant a dramatic shoring up of cybersecurity defense capabilities.

“A few years ago, we had less than 100 security specialists,” he said. “Today, roughly 20 percent of our workforce is involved in security in one way or another. And this is just the tip of the iceberg as we look toward the next 10 years,” he added during his summit presentation. For the full article click here 

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