Dr Clive King
Clive retired from 26 years as a UNIX kernel hacker, performance subject matter expert and fly and fix engineer for Oracle where he worked with the worlds largest and most demanding customers. working hard to be semi retired, splitting his time between Rock Climbing, being a kernel hacker for a Dutch Company, a management consultant as their AI, Cybersecurity and IT subject matter expert and a honorary lecturer at Aberystwyth University Computer Science department with a focus on helping student gets jobs in industry and teaching/coaching study/life skills.
He is the organiser of the fledgling BSidesAberystwyth and curated TEDxAberystwyth for 9 years before retiring.
Session
We don't all think the same. Perhaps as many as one in three entrepreneurs
self-identify as neurodivergent. As engineers, managers, consultants, and
business leader our point of
reference is ourselves. By default, we will engineer a product or a
process to make sense to the way we experience the world. Two individuals
may process the events in very different ways
and both perspectives are equally valid. The nature of each
response may literally be part of their DNA and/or environmental
conditioning. This aspect of designing product and process is often overlook,
but becomes business critical when a
behavioural response, such as choosing not to click a phishing link, is
a organisations last and critical line of defence against cyber-attack.
We explore how expecting individuals to simulate an others
perceived preferences and responses, is tiring and error prone.
Expecting conformity fails to deliver a robust security response when
product and process are exposed to real world conditions.
A.I. (Large Language Models) are trained on a data set which is
produced in large part by neurotypical authors or writing in a
neurotypical style. We conclude by identifying where AI can skew the
real world security effectiveness of product and process when biased
with neurotypical assumptions in training.