In an earlier post, I wrote about the need for robust circuit breakers that would use real-time market data like a yellow flag to make markets safer and more stable.
To address the big data issue, governments must continue to develop and enhance their complex analytical targeting systems to scour the data for the proverbial needle in a haystack that would flag a suspicious shipment.
In the unstructured data world, especially text, the big trend is predictive coding or predictive analytics that identify high-risk communications, flag them for followup and use machine learning to train a data set.
That kind of harmless hacking was channeled into a variety of competitions at the conference, including a lockpicking contest and a game of capture the flag, in which teams earned points by stealing bits of each other's data.