Going Beyond Secure Smart Nation

Talk at GovWare.sg 2015 about the Smart Nation. This is about the need for open source priniciples to be used in creating a smart nation and the tech around it. it also discusses the need for smart energy and possibly using LFTR as a solution.

Transcript

1. Going Beyond a Secure Smart Nation Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com Head, Community Architecture and Leadership Red Hat Asia Pacific October 6, 2015, GovWare 2015, Singapore
2. “Look at your fish” * * apologies to Samuel Scudder - http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Look-At-Your-Fish-By-Samuel-H-Scudder.htm
3. Haemulon CC BY Brian Gratwicke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemulon#/media/File:Haemulon_flavolineat um_French_grunt.jpg
4. Samuel Hubbard Scudder https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_H ubbard_Scudder_1837- 1911.jpg#/media/File:Samuel_Hubbard_Scudder_183 7-1911.jpg Professor Louis Agassiz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz
5. “Look at your fish” * * apologies to Samuel Scudder - http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Look-At-Your-Fish-By-Samuel-H-Scudder.htm
6. “Look at your fish” Smart Nation
7. Smart Nation
8. Secure Smart Nation
9. How would you ...
10. … recognize a Smart Nation?
11. … a Secure Smart Nation?
12. 1) Instrumented to collect data Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
13. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
14. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data 3) Detailed, measurable and real-time knowledge Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
15. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data 3) Detailed, measurable and real-time knowledge 4) Analytics and decision making systems Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
16. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data 3) Detailed, measurable and real-time knowledge 4) Analytics and decision making systems 5) Automated functions Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
17. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data 3) Detailed, measurable and real-time knowledge 4) Analytics and decision making systems 5) Automated functions 6) Collaborative spaces Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
18. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data 3) Detailed, measurable and real-time knowledge 4) Analytics and decision making systems 5) Automated functions 6) Collaborative spaces 7) Open and inclusive decision making process Characteristics of a Smart City Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
19. 1) Instrumented to collect data 2) Aggregation of collected data 3) Detailed, measurable and real-time knowledge 4) Analytics and decision making systems 5) Automated functions 6) Collaborative spaces 7) Open and inclusive decision making process Characteristics of a Smart Nation Source: http://www.iso.org/iso/smart_cities_report-jtc1.pdf
20. What does it mean when those characteristics are evident?
21. How would these systems that provide the smarts, be sustained?
22. Consider the following • It's SN10 (Smart Nation Year 10 [SG50+x]) • All public spaces are instrumented and data is flowing into vast repositories • Very Near real time data analytics gives us all significant information about our surroundings • All data (even from sensors) are encrypted • All networks under constant attack (cyber)
24. Now consider Power stations start failing • Backup generators fire up and provide temporary relief • Battery systems take over • Data from sensors are now not reaching their collectors • Smart Nation subsystems progressively become isolated • No definitive means to make decisions
25. Have we considered smart energy?
26. Are we there yet with smart energy?
27. Are we there yet with smart energy? I don't know.
28. “Look at your fish” * * apologies to Samuel Scudder - http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Look-At-Your-Fish-By-Samuel-H-Scudder.htm
29. Haemulon CC BY Brian Gratwicke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemulon#/media/File:Haemulon_flavolineat um_French_grunt.jpg
30. Singapore is renewable energy challenged
31. Solar, Wind, Hydro, Tidal, Wave, Biomass, Geo- thermal are all non-feasible for Singapore
32. What's left then is _______
33. What's left then is nuclear
34. Could Molten Salt Reactors or Thorium MSReactors, or more precisely, Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors – LFTR be our Smart Energy source? Source: http://www.thoriumenergycheaperthancoal.com/, http://home.comcast.net/~robert.hargraves/public_html/2010-07Hargraves2-1.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6&v=SS2JrWa_Wkc
35. Until Smart Energy is available, any Smart Nation effort would have a SPOF
36. Having level set that consideration, the unspoken challenge of the Smart Nation is ...
37. ... keeping all of these technologies secure, current, updateable (plug and play)
38. At a national level, technological independence and reliance on open standards have to be a core principle
39. What's technological independence?
40. It's all about being able to design, build, empower & manage the tech needed to make the Smart Nation thrive
41. To ensure that, as a policy, all of the tech needed MUST have an Open Source Reference Implementation .
42. To ensure that, as a policy, all of the tech needed MUST have an Open Source Reference Implementation – without exception
43. What's an Open Source Reference Implementation?
44. An Open Source Reference Implementation would ensure that the knowledge of the tech will always be available in the open
45. Why?
46. At a national level, you cannot compromise your independence with closed source solutions
47. So, with an Open Source Reference Implementation, you have the needed gold standard for continuity
48. The Soul of the Smart Nation
49. The Soul of the Smart Nation*: Is embodied in knowing that you have control of your destiny * apologies to Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine http://tracykidder.com/books/soul/
50. Which brings me to the three fundamental principles that have to be adhered to in building a Smart Nation
51. 1. Secure by default
52. 1. Secure by default 2. Open Standards-based
53. 1. Secure by default 2. Open Standards-based 3. Open Source Reference Implementation
54. Taken together a sustainable and efficient Smart Nation that is secure, independent and resilient becomes doable
55. “Look at your fish” * * apologies to Samuel Scudder - http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Look-At-Your-Fish-By-Samuel-H-Scudder.htm
56. Haemulon CC BY Brian Gratwicke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemulon#/media/File:Haemulon_flavolineat um_French_grunt.jpg
57. Thank you Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com @harishpillay
58. Two more things
59. “I believe in a #SmartNation with an open source society and immense opportunities; where everyone can share, participate and co-create solutions to enrich and improve quality of life for ourselves and our fellow Singaporeans.” Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan Geekcamp.SG, September 26, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/Vivian.Balakrishnan.Sg/posts/10153017297841207
60. http://open-advice.org/ Available on a first-come- first-served basis at the Red Hat Booth just outside this auditorium
61. Thank you Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com @harishpillay