Blockchain: The New Digital Swiss Army Knife?
G. Mark Hardy
BSides Tampa 2018

Abstract: Blockchain as a technology has been proposed as a solution to everything from frictionless currency transfer to tracking cargo on ships. With over one billion dollars in venture funds invested and several hundred patents filed, every security professional must know the impact on organizations in terms of risk, volatility, and competitiveness. This talk will explore alternative uses for blockchain technology other than cryptocurrency, and provide a framework for utilizing and securing a technology considered as disruptive as the Internet was in the 1990s."

Bio: G. Mark Hardy has been providing information security expertise to government, military, and commercial clients for over 30 years. A long-standing industry veteran, he is a perennial speaker at major industry trade shows. As president of National Security Corporation, he directs the efforts of the information security consulting firm he founded in 1988, and heads up card fraud prevention efforts at CardKill Inc..

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