A Call to Action from CEO Rami Rahim

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0:20 ladies and gentlemen please welcome

0:22 chief executive officer juniper networks

0:26 Rami Rahim 1984 this was an iconic book

0:42 a powerful film and the inspiration of

0:47 an apple ad that until today remains

0:50 relevant and resonant with me what we

0:55 feared as a society in 1984 is in many

0:58 ways what we fear today a future where

1:02 we are not in control a future where we

1:04 are subservient to an authoritarian

1:07 force Vai cyber criminals or Big Brother

1:14 cyber criminals that want to manipulate

1:17 our systems our institutions in our

1:21 media that want to disrupt the stability

1:24 of life as we know it today take away

1:29 all of the code words the buzzwords the

1:32 rhetoric the acronyms and this is why I

1:35 believe 50,000 of the best and brightest

1:38 from Silicon Valley and around the world

1:40 are here today in San Francisco it is

1:44 our job to throw the hammer it is my job

1:48 as CEO of Juniper Networks to make sure

1:50 that we are focused on our mission

1:53 whether that be a scale the Internet to

1:57 transform the economics of networking or

1:59 to just to battle complexity of

2:02 operating worldwide networks we solve

2:06 really important but really hard

2:09 problems a Juniper but if I were a

2:13 novelist and I were to write a book like

2:17 George Orwell a futurist I'd write about

2:20 a future where technology has progressed

2:22 to the point where it has disrupted what

2:24 it means to be civilized what it means

2:27 to be human

2:29 take robotics and artificial

2:31 intelligence where today

2:34 leading scientists from around the world

2:36 have warned us of the unchecked

2:39 development of these technologies you

2:43 remember that robots bought mini that

2:45 robot that loves to open doors or here's

2:48 spot many fending off a human from

2:51 trying to prevent it from doing what it

2:52 does best open doors now I don't know

2:56 about you I am a technologist through

2:58 and through but I find something

2:59 somewhat creepy about this at South by

3:04 Southwest again this year Elon Musk

3:06 warned us that it would be AI and not

3:11 nuclear weapons that would pose a dire

3:14 threat to the survival of the human

3:17 species you can even add the late

3:22 Stephen Hawking's who said that success

3:26 in creating AI would be the biggest

3:29 event in human history

3:31 unfortunately it might be the last

3:34 unless we learn how to contain the risks

3:38 that are involved now I suspect a few in

3:42 this audience today have seen the series

3:44 black mirror I suspect many of you have

3:49 I recently binge dydt myself and there

3:53 were a few episodes that really struck a

3:55 note with me but there was one in

3:56 particular that I have to say hit home

3:59 and that is hated in the nation it

4:01 touched on the very real consequences of

4:05 online social media mob justice it also

4:09 touched on the vulnerability of

4:11 Technology a topic that's very near and

4:13 dear to my heart

4:15 technology that many of us here are

4:18 responsible for building from

4:20 maintaining and for securing technology

4:23 that was developed with the intent to do

4:26 good to solve a real and a meaningful

4:28 problem that affects our society

4:31 technology that unfortunately is

4:33 exploited by those who want to do harm

4:37 who want to steal and in this episode

4:42 and I apologize advance for the spoiler

4:44 a swarm of drone B

4:48 are developed to solve a very real

4:50 problem which is to compensate for a

4:52 dwindling real bee population that today

4:55 is responsible for pollinating some 70

4:58 out of the 100 crop species that see it

5:02 our planet well you guessed it a flaw

5:05 and the technology is exploited by the

5:07 bad guys

5:08 to wreak havoc technology that was

5:12 developed to do good is used to

5:15 terrorize the people of Britain where

5:17 victims are targeted with nothing more

5:19 than a social media hashtag and just

5:24 what you think things can't get any

5:25 worse

5:26 the writers devised an ingenious way to

5:28 show that sometimes social media mod

5:31 justice can turn on the mob itself so

5:37 whether it's AI or a militarized social

5:39 media or Big Brother you don't have to

5:41 look all that far into the future to

5:42 think about and to understand the

5:45 threats that we will face this is 2018

5:49 with George Orwell be proud this vision

5:54 of the future and what's happening all

5:56 around us today is a stark reminder of

5:58 our responsibilities like many engineers

6:03 that graduate from schools in Canada I

6:05 choose to wear this iron ring on my

6:08 finger as a constant reminder of the

6:13 moral the ethical and the professional

6:16 responsibilities that I have and the

6:18 products and the technologies and the

6:20 solutions that I help to develop each

6:22 and every day and introduce into the

6:24 market each and every year but why is

6:28 this important well many of us in this

6:32 room help build the internet on behalf

6:37 of Juniper Networks I can say very

6:39 proudly that we helped build the

6:42 Internet we helped create much of the

6:44 routing the switching the security

6:46 infrastructure that powers the wide area

6:49 networks the local area networks the

6:51 data centers the core the forum the

6:54 internet the internet that has

6:57 transformed how we shop how we

6:59 manufacture transform how we

7:01 do research how we check if an ailment

7:05 is serious how we buy tickets to Black

7:07 Panther we've in a sense redefined the

7:14 idea of connectedness but it is that

7:20 very connectedness that has unleashed

7:23 unprecedented threats to our society

7:26 threats that make an episode of Black

7:28 Mirror look less like science fiction

7:30 and more like forecasting the reason is

7:38 that the Internet has unintentionally

7:40 empowered criminals with three unfair

7:44 advantages as eliminated time eliminated

7:48 distance and it eliminated identity

7:51 constraints that are typically

7:53 associated with more traditional

7:54 physical crimes the speed and the

7:57 ubiquity of the Internet means that

7:59 attacks can happen without warning from

8:03 any location and with complete anonymity

8:07 in a sense it's put the bad guy in your

8:11 house in the middle of the night in

8:13 complete disguise you know as I reflect

8:16 on the last two decades of the Internet

8:20 and I look out two more decades the

8:24 factors that really determine the pace

8:26 at which the Internet can scale have

8:28 been things like scaleable routing

8:31 protocols or Moore's Law that determines

8:34 the number of transistors you can put on

8:36 a die size of given size that move the

8:38 packets around as quickly as possible

8:40 and certainly these will remain

8:43 important factors going forward but I

8:46 believe that the biggest factors that

8:49 will determine the pace at which the

8:51 Internet can succeed over the next two

8:53 decades will be that of complexity and

8:56 even more importantly trust yes there is

9:02 a business dimension to the problems we

9:04 saw the Juniper each and every day but

9:06 quite frankly we take this personally we

9:09 need to we must make sure that the

9:12 Internet continues to scale and to

9:14 thrive as it has

9:15 over the last two decades going forward

9:20 so where do we go from here

9:23 unlike Orwell's 1984 I think my story

9:27 can actually have a happy ending

9:29 we at juniper believe that there is no

9:33 societal challenge that is more complex

9:36 than cybersecurity today and against

9:38 that complexity we need purity of focus

9:41 and simplicity of mission so our call to

9:46 action today is straightforward and it's

9:48 simple we need to be agents of change

9:52 every one of us here RSA needs to be an

9:55 agent of change with the goal of

9:57 evolving cyber security tools

9:59 technologies and processes but let's get

10:01 more specific our mission is twofold

10:06 first and foremost we must acknowledge

10:10 that humans cannot keep up with the

10:13 scale and the velocity at which data

10:15 needs to be processed each and every day

10:17 in order to create that effective threat

10:20 shield so we have to continue to develop

10:23 the technology that improves and

10:26 provides us with that threat shield that

10:28 will keep us safe I have good news we're

10:32 already building a fantastic foundation

10:34 you walk through the halls of RSA and

10:36 you will see some incredible technology

10:39 in the domain of AI and machine learning

10:42 and behavioral analytics today one of

10:44 the most effective ways to stop threats

10:47 is to understand the underlying behavior

10:51 of those threats with the goal of

10:53 overcoming what is very typical malware

10:56 techniques of constantly evolving and

10:59 changing their packaging and their looks

11:02 so that they could evade more

11:03 traditional threat detection techniques

11:05 well that behavioral analysis and the

11:10 lessons that is gained from that and

11:12 then that dissemination of intelligence

11:14 worldwide in near real-time is one of

11:18 the most compelling use cases for

11:21 automation in our industry but for some

11:25 automation is a bad word

11:28 because of some misguided view that it

11:30 has a negative effect on jobs and we

11:35 cannot we must not allow ourselves to

11:38 slow down Automation is inevitable and

11:41 it is good especially when it comes to

11:47 cybersecurity the cyber criminals that

11:49 are out there are leveraging automation

11:52 with fervor we must make sure that we do

11:55 not show up to a knife fight wearing

11:58 boxing gloves I believe that as

12:02 automation continues to evolve the

12:05 collaboration between humans and

12:08 machines becomes increasingly important

12:11 the goal is that the whole is greater

12:13 than the sum of the parts it's about the

12:17 intelligence of machines coupled with

12:19 the wisdom and the intuition of humans

12:23 which gives us three really compelling

12:27 advantages or benefits the first is

12:30 retrospective analysis which is nothing

12:33 more than the ability to look back in

12:34 time and understand what happened and

12:36 why

12:37 the second is current analysis which

12:41 gives us an ability to eliminate threats

12:42 early in the cyber kill chain but the

12:45 third and most important of all is

12:49 predictive analysis which is about

12:52 leveraging AI and data to predict and

12:55 prevent an attack before it actually

12:57 happens this one is worth repeating

12:59 because this is the true power of AI

13:03 artificial intelligence coupled with

13:05 rich data gives us the ability to

13:07 predict the future to determine when a

13:12 bad outcome is going to happen before it

13:15 actually happens and before it can

13:17 actually do harm so like I said I

13:21 believe in the future where humans and

13:23 machines will Internet interact in

13:25 unique and compelling ways consider the

13:30 era just as an analogy of implantables

13:34 today we mostly think about human

13:36 implantables as a way of compensating

13:38 for a disability

13:40 but in the future I believe in

13:43 implantables will give us abilities that

13:45 go far beyond our wildest imagination of

13:48 what the human the organic human body

13:50 can do let's just look at a simple

13:53 example of LASIK today somebody who

13:56 undergoes a simple LASIK procedure can

13:59 hope to expect 20/20 maybe 2010 vision

14:03 but that drop-down menu for LASIK will

14:07 include things like telephoto zoom

14:09 lenses infrared vision how would you

14:13 like 21 vision

14:16 compare that to a hawk that has a measly

14:19 24 maybe twenty-five vision and yet as

14:26 we lean into automation and emphasize

14:29 the deeper collaboration that must exist

14:31 between AI and humans we must never lose

14:35 sight of the importance of talent of

14:39 people of you which brings us to the

14:45 second mission for us as agents of

14:48 change we must recognize the singular

14:53 the critical element of human

14:56 intelligence and importantly human

14:57 intuition as agents of change our

15:02 responsibility is to make sure that we

15:04 develop the next generation of human

15:05 that can keep up with the challenge that

15:08 we face why because there is no amount

15:11 of AI gets called that can solve the

15:14 problem holistically so we have to make

15:17 sure that our skill sets are continually

15:20 expanding and adapting consider an auto

15:24 mechanic in 1998 vas had to adapt his or

15:28 her skill sets to become that of a

15:30 computer analyst today they have had to

15:34 be agents of change in their profession

15:36 in their industry we quite frankly have

15:41 a human capital challenge today there

15:45 are not there are not enough of us we

15:48 know this because the cybersecurity

15:50 unemployment rate today is practically

15:52 zero

15:53 and even in the face of this perceived

15:56 threat of automation there will be 2

15:59 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in

16:03 the next couple of years and I know that

16:06 might feel good to a cyber security

16:07 professional from a job security

16:10 standpoint but standing still it's just

16:14 going backwards so we need out of box

16:19 thinking we need unique unique ideas to

16:21 really solve this problem once and for

16:24 all and let me borrow one just as an

16:27 example from former Undersecretary of

16:29 defense for policy Michele Flournoy she

16:33 envisioned that we need a cyber ROTC a

16:36 reserve officers Training Corp now for

16:39 those of you that are not familiar with

16:41 how an ROTC works in a traditional ROTC

16:44 students on campus commit to training

16:47 courses and in return they owe four

16:51 years of active duty as a result of that

16:54 the government pays for all or part of

16:56 their tuition in a cyber ROTC as

17:00 Michelle envisioned it students in

17:03 computer science compete for government

17:06 scholarships those that are lucky enough

17:08 to get those scholarships over the

17:11 government five years of service in the

17:14 Department of greatest requirement and

17:16 at the end of those five years can

17:18 decide to continue working in those

17:20 agencies or competing for jobs in the

17:24 private sector here's my bet they'd find

17:27 one pretty darn quickly if we want to be

17:31 agents of change and not agents of the

17:33 status quo

17:33 these are the kinds of out of box

17:35 thinking ideas that we need today which

17:39 is why juniper is so excited about the

17:43 investments that we are making and the

17:45 recent announcements we've made in a

17:47 really successful open lab initiative so

17:52 we're expanding the scope the scale of

17:55 our worldwide open labs facilities with

17:58 curriculum hands-on workshops hackathons

18:02 throwdowns all geared toward advanced

18:07 the state of the art and techniques and

18:09 solutions for today's and tomorrow's

18:12 threats we will continue to work with

18:16 universities with startups with

18:19 entrepreneurs with the goal of creating

18:21 that next generation cybersecurity

18:23 professional and leader and importantly

18:27 given the size the scope of this

18:31 challenge that we face we have to make

18:34 sure that we cast as wide a net as

18:37 possible to 100% of the population not

18:40 just half of it which is just one reason

18:43 why diversity is so fundamental to this

18:46 initiative let me take you back all the

18:51 way back to the beginning of my talk

18:52 here it was a machine playing Big

18:56 Brother's message

18:57 it was a machine lecturing us it was a

19:00 machine keeping humans in mind-numbing

19:02 conformity

19:03 it was a human throwing that

19:08 sledgehammer

19:09 it was a human telling us do we have to

19:12 do things differently and showing us

19:15 that conformity is the enemy even a

19:19 technology company especially a

19:22 technology company knows that the human

19:25 element is the most essential element

19:29 humans must knock down the status quo

19:33 must break through we must be agents of

19:36 change that Apple ad showed us that in a

19:41 world where everything else has changed

19:43 those fundamental truths have not thank

19:48 you

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