Aura Adds to Board of Directors
BURLINGTON, Mass., June 9, 2021 Aura, a leading provider of comprehensive digital security for consumers, today announced the addition of three industry leaders to its board of directors. Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder & managing partner of technology investment firm WndrCo, co-founder of DreamWorks SKG and former CEO of DreamWorks Animation, Zulfikar Ramzan, chief digital officer at RSA Security, and James Cash, leading technology consultant and former Harvard Business School Professor will serve as key advisors to Aura’s leadership as the company enters its next phase of growth.
“We set out to build a board with a diverse mix of expertise, spanning a wide range of industries increasingly fueled by technology,” said Sujay Jaswa, Chairman of Aura s Board and co-founder & managing partner of WndrCo. “The additions of Katzenberg, Cash and Ramzan will provide strong leadership, invaluable insights and effective governance to Aura.”
Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference
Crypto apparently means cryptocurrency, even at RSA.
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The experts have weighed in: Non-fungible tokens are dumb as hell.Â
The annual RSA Conference brings together some of the brightest minds in cryptography to discuss advances in the field, the year s biggest hacks, and where the cybersecurity industry is heading. This year, it just so happened to kick off with a pronounced dunk on NFTs.Â
The first main event of RSA 2021 was the cryptographers panel, which followed Monday s opening keynote. At the start of the panel, Ron Rivest, a famed cryptographer who co-created RSA public-key encryption, derided non-fungible tokens as worth even less than the famed tulips of tulip mania.Â
As in recent years, panelists included Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir - the R and S in the RSA cryptosystem. They were joined by Carmela Troncoso, an assistant professor at Switzerland s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, whose work focuses on analyzing, building and deploying secure and privacy-preserving systems.
Also on the panel: Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at both the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, founder of the discipline of security economics and author of the textbook Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems.
Moderating was Zulfikar Ramzan, chief digital officer at RSA - the security firm that runs the eponymous conference - who dived headfirst into one aspect of the crypto debate.
Best 11 Quotes From Cryptographers Panel
Cryptographers at an RSA Conference panel aren t worried about adversarial quantum cryptography. Machine learning, though, causes pressing practical issues.
RSA CONFERENCE 2021 – The annual Cryptographers Panel, moderated Monday by RSA chief digital officer Zulfikar Ramzan, brought together cryptographers Carmela Troncoso, assistant professor at EPFL; Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University; and panel mainstays (the R and S in RSA ) MIT professor Ron Rivest and Weizmann Institute professor of computer science Adi Shamir. (Another usual participant, cryptographer Whitfield Diffie, was not part of the panel but did a rapid-fire, one-on-one repartee with Ramzan.)
Each year at RSAC, a cadre of celebrated cryptographers weigh in on the most important issues of the day. The Cryptographers Panel is one of the conference s must-see events, even as RSAC embarks on its first-ever virtual event. That unusual backdrop made the experts concerns all the more stark.
Instead of a semicircle of chairs on stage at the Moscone Center, the Cryptographers Panel was in the form of a pre-recorded video conference released on May 17, the first day of the 2021 conference. Members faces floated in individual boxes akin to the Zoom calls so many of us have grown accustomed to during the pandemic.