by BGF | Dec 13, 2015 | World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Practitioner in Cybersecurity Award
Loeb House, Harvard University, December 12, 2015
Mikko Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific America and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge and he has delivered the most watched computer security talk on the internet. Mr. Hypponen has been the subject of hundreds of interviews in global media, including a 9-page profile in Vanity Fair. Mr. Hypponen, born in 1969, was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list.
Thus, it is with great pleasure that the Boston Global Forum is pleased to confer on Dmitri Alperovitch the Boston Global Forum’s Practitioner in Cybersecurity Award.
by Admin | Apr 17, 2016 | World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
(April 18th, 2016) International cybersecurity leader Mikko Hypponen of Finland now accepts the need to use the word “cyberwar.’’ Not many security experts like the term ‘cyberwar’, and Mikko Hyppönen used to be one of them. But in the wake of recent attacks by Russia on critical infrastructure in Ukraine and a rise in the sophistication of nation-state hacking, he has changed his mind.
Mr. Hypponen, whom The Boston Global Forum has honored with the title of “Practitioner in Cybersecurity,’’ told IBTimes UK: “I have changed my opinion about cyberwar. I used to hate the word and I would always explain to people that whenever you hear or see headlines about ‘cyberwar’ it’s never war – it’s typically spying or espionage – which is not war. Even if its nation states doing it, that’s not war.”
Mr. Hyppönen has been the chief research officer at Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure since the early 1990s.
He told IBTimes UK that it was the Russian hacking in Ukraine last year that changed his mind on the nuances of the much-criticized term. “When you look what happened in Ukraine, when you have two countries that are at war and you have an attack on critical infrastructure that is not stealing anything, but [instead] shutting down power for 200,000 people, that’s not espionage, that’s not spying – in my book that’s cyberwar.”
