On the Set in NYC - Twitter Live Event with Huawei USA

It’s one thing to do a livestream event from the comfort of home at your desk, but it’s something else doing it in a studio with a full production crew. That’s where I was yesterday in New York, doing a Twitter Live event, and while the finished product looks seamless, there was a lot of makeup involved, and all the magic happens behind the camera.

In terms of our topic, the focus was on cybersecurity, and the pressing need for a global, standards-based effort to mitigate the risks we all face with any form of online activity. I led the discussion along with Andy Purdy, CSO for Huawei Technologies USA, and we’re pictured below just before going live with our host, Kimberlee Bradshaw, also with Huawei USA.

The Twitterverse traffic was healthy, and I think everyone was pleased with the result. If you’d like to check out the replay, here’s the link - it runs about 30 minutes.

Hosting a LinkedIn Live Event with Andy Purdy of Huawei USA - Tomorrow at 2ET

There’s a first time for everything, and in this case, it’s hosting a LinkedIn Live event. I’ll be in conversation with Andy Purdy, CSO for Huawei USA, covering 5G ground related to cybersecurity, data privacy and open source.

We’ll have a lot to talk about, where the focus will be on the technology issues, challenges and opportunities - and I hope you join us. We go live tomorrow - Wednesday, Aug. 18 - at 2pm ET, and all the details are here on my LinkedIn event page, and to watch the replay, sign into LinkedIn and then use this link..

Google and China - What it means for telcos

This is the Google mega-story of the day, and I think it's a big one for all kinds of reasons. Have you ever seen a company get so much global attention over such a short period of time across so many unrelated businesses? That's a story unto itself, and the irony isn't lost on me when I think about their name.

Google's differences with the great firewall of China are all over the news, and I'm here with a bit of a different take. In my latest Service Provider Views column on TMCnet, I'm more concerned with what all this means for privacy and how that impacts service providers.

Up until recently, service providers were in a very different business than Google, but today that line sure is blurry. So, it seems to me that whatever challenges Google is facing - especially with China - is going to matter to service providers. Pretty fertile ground here, and I'm sure I'll be revisiting it soon.

You can read the article here, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.