

That's the kind of thing we're trying to detect." "But what we're seeing now is hackers are using a common password attack across a large number of users at a company. "Today, you know if hackers try a password attack, a company's computer system will lock the hackers out after a few tries," said Matt Wald, president and CEO at Columbus Collaboratory. If not, fuel is saved.Īnother boring but serious problem being attacked by a new service called Watchtower that is offered by the Columbus Collaboratory is identifying and managing cybersecurity risks.
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The sensors determine if the cans are full to determine whether trucks need to be sent out to empty them. The lesson is, if we can ask what the most boring problems are - that's where we'll get the biggest lift."Īmong cities, such "boring problems" can include putting digital sensors on trash cans, something that Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin saw in operation in Spain. Columbus Mission (Astronaut Eyharts and Schlegel) COROT COS-B Cosmic Kiss CRISTAL. "Everyone is racing to some degree to address the 'sexy' problems," Patil said, such as terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.īut when he sent the brightest minds in his field to the Pentagon to find areas in which data science could be applied well, "all the most boring problems were the ones that really needed data solutions. In particular, the Columbus Collaboratory stands as a good example, he said, as it is an effort by seven entities - American Electric Power, Battelle, Cardinal Health, L Brands, Huntington National Bank, Nationwide and OhioHealth - to share research and find ways to be more competitive by improving efficiency, security and customer focus. Instead, the beacon on the local level, in cities like Columbus, is found in collaborations between local government and businesses. But the federal government is not the "beacon" to be followed by others.
