Part of the ISTS Spring Speaker Series - Risks of the Internet of Things to Society (RIOTS), co-sponsored by the Computer Science Colloquium

Abstract: Ask yourself - Have you ever worked in an environment where pressure is applied to the staff by middle management or executives to ship a product? Have you ever experienced the awkward silence when an engineer asks the management about features or security that was overlooked or purposefully avoided to make a product ship date happen? Are you familiar with the term 'minimum viable product'? Well, my friends, you are in luck, for today I shall be taking you on a safari. Today I'll be showing you what happens in the real world when scenarios like the one I've just described are put into reality, and products are shipped with not a care in the world. 

Powerplants, electrical switching stations, acid tanks, cows, chickens - even curtains. People are putting nearly everything they can on the internet for no other reason than because they can. I'd like to introduce the 'Internet of Things' to you! Please make sure your helmets are fastened on tightly, and please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle. Things are going to get weird.

Bio: Dan Tentler is the founder and CEO of The Phobos Group, a boutique information security services company. Previously a co-founder of Carbon Dynamics, and a security freelancer under the Aten Labs moniker, Dan has found himself in a wide array of different environments, ranging from blue team, to red team, to purple team, to "evil hacker for a camera crew". When not obtaining shells or explaining against how to get shelled, Dan enjoys FPV racing, homebrewing, and internet troublemaking. 

http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/events/abstract-tentler.html