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In his presentation @Webit.Festival Europe, Boris Goncharov, a leading cyber security strategist, explained a rather boring subject - cyber security threats. And he did it with a story and fictional characters that he created himself! Boris Goncharov’s character - Captain Ciso, is the great defender of the Business city - the city where all the capital is - human, money, business doing, whatever. While he used to save data, defend the city and its citizens from malware,  the situation is changed now. One the one hand, the villains express your organisation’s vulnerability. Next the Business city is attacked by bots and the worst type of threat is the very invisible one that never leaves traces and you never it was ever there. The city entered the 21st century. So did the Captain - along with Artificial intelligence on his side, he started using the combination of CMA - DTA - CDSS. This is the logic of the cyber security management of the future. This is the newest way to defeat your cyber security operations and will allow you to continue to monitor, correlate the state of these controls with the external environment. In order to do all this, you need to be aware of the external environment - a common mistake that everybody  does - not making a risk evaluation. Once done, this brings nothing but knowledge - action needs to be taken, because threats are all around us. That’s why it’s vital to understand the correlation between your environment and what you can do. The solutions don’t change as much as the treats do. Risk assessment is dead! Today we have to be risk aware every minute. You can watch the full keynote of the captain here: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNs_YFhe19c[/embed] If you want to stay up to date with the latest trends in security and privacy, Webit.Festival Sofia 2018 is the place for that. Visit our website and check the different ticket options.    

Norihisa Wada, the CMO of Tokyo-based Edulab, Inc., an edtech leader with a strong basis in assessment and learning science, took the Webit.Festival Europe 2017 stage by storm to tell us more about the latest innovations in educations in Japan. Mr Wada, who is a former SVP Nintendo, also teaches students in Kyoto University in the field of behavior change.  Meanwhile, EduLab is providing new technology to help for better assessments in education, for example voice and handwriting recognition, which will help for better evaluation of the learners. This will impact the college entrance exams in Japan, starting in 2020. "In year 2020 the college entrance exams will change. One big change is going from multiple choice questions test to an essay based question items. The second will be the English assessment areas. In Japan the two components were listening and reading, but we are going to add speaking and writing. These are the areas where we provide new technology like the voice recognition and handwritten technology to give a fine assessment of the learners. The national assessment in Japan is multiple choice. This will change into four spectrum assessment. You need to look into your personal characteristics. What are the creativeness you have", the expert said. He also explained about the nature of the four spectrum assessment: "First generation is computer based assessment. Second generation is what you call an adaptive learning assessment system. And third generation is what you call a formative assessment, where assessment technology is integrated into the learning process itself. The fourth generation is what you call a four spectrum analysis - assessment of both cognitive and non-cognitive skills". Mr Wada and his company are also open to investing in startups in the education industry. "We do a lot of investments today in the field of education technology. My work is connected to meeting new venture startups in the education area in which we could invest in the future. We have outposts throughout the world and these are the trends that we see today in the assessment field of education in Japan", he said.