BusinessMirror August 01, 2021

Page 1

T

only set at an Olympics; and the world record, which is the record that is set in their seasons. Any sanctioned event can have a world record held or a world record set. There are also times where the Olympic record “is” the world record, because they set the world record at the Olympics. But they’re not the exact same thing.

OKYO—Is an Olympic champion by definition a world champion? Can you be a world champion without being an Olympic champion? What’s the difference, anyway? As the Tokyo Olympics provide multiple opportunities for memorable athletic performances, it’s worth a closer look. Here, Associated Press Deputy Sports Editor Howie Rumberg sorts it all out.

YOU COULD HOLD A RECORD THAT’S BOTH, RIGHT?

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

AN Olympic champion is only an Olympic champion. Because the Olympics are made up of 33 sports, each run by a federation, those federations can hold their own world championships—some every two years, some every four years, opposite years from the Olympics. And they declare world champions at their events.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN TERMS OF RECORDS?

SO in sports like gymnastics and athletics and swimming, you have two sets of records: the Olympic record, which is

USAIN BOLT poses beside the timing board showing the new men’s 200 meters world record he set at the August 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. AP

YOU could hold a record that’s both, yes. But the record that’s both would have to be set at the Olympics. And there are standards like, say, the depth of the swimming pool or the type of surface on the track that everyone’s obligated to follow. It’s worth noting that you have more opportunities to set a world record than you do an Olympic record. So in some ways, an Olympic record, even if it’s not as good as a world record, has its own unique glow because being an Olympian is thought of, obviously, as the pinnacle of sports. AP

Olympics stories in Sports A8

TOKYO OLYMPICS MEDAL COUNT RANK

TEAM/NOC

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

TOTAL

1

People’s Republic of China

18

9

11

38

2

Japan

15

4

7

26

3

United States of America

14

16

11

41

4

ROC

10

13

9

32

5

Australia

9

2

11

22

6

Great Britain

6

9

9

24

7

Republic of Korea

5

4

5

14

8

Netherlands

3

7

5

15

9

France

3

4

8

15

10

Germany

3

4

8

15

34

Philippines

1

0

0

1

ROTARY CLUB OF MANILA JOURNALISM AWARDS

SOURCE: OLYMPICS.COM | AS OF JULY 30, 2021 4:52 PM

World champs, Olympic champs and the difference

EJAP JOURNALISM AWARDS

2006 National Newspaper of the Year 2011 National Newspaper of the Year 2013 Business Newspaper of the Year 2017 Business Newspaper of the Year 2019 Business Newspaper of the Year

BUSINESS NEWS SOURCE OF THE YEAR (2017, 2018, 2019)

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2018 BANTOG MEDIA AWARDS

PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY

DATA CHAMPION

A broader look at today’s business

RISE OF ‘WHITE HAT’ HACKERS

n

Sunday, August 1, 2021 Vol. 16 No. 291

P25.00 nationwide | 12 pages | 7 DAYS A WEEK

Cyber world as the digital extension of the never-ending war between good and evil By Roderick L. Abad

I

organization’s level of strength in withstanding it,” he added.

Contributor

Ethical hacking

F you can’t beat them, hack them. This serves as a reminder for businesses that are not familiar yet with “ethical hacking,” or “white hat hacking,” that they can avoid getting victimized by cybercriminals at large via a counter attack before the latter could launch a malicious threat on their information technology systems.

Cyber attacks have been perennial problems ever since the digital world began. In fact, global cybercrime losses are estimated to reach $6 trillion this year and expected to hit $10.5 trillion by 2025. To address this, business owners are racing to beef up their cybersecurity measures to prevent data breaches that could put their investment and reputation in trouble. One of which is resorting to ethical hacking to protect their organizations against the forthcoming problems from hackers. And this is made possible by hiring

“white hat” hackers (WHHs).

Good or bad

THE art or technique of discovering and exploiting a security loophole in an infrastructure like a website, a software, or a computer is called hacking. A person involved in this practice is a hacker, which can be either good or bad. According to Secuna Chief Information and Security Officer Allan Jay Dumanhug, WHHs are totally different from their malicious counterparts—the “black hat” hackers (BHHs).

PESO EXCHANGE RATES n US 50.3420

ALLAN JAY DUMANHUG, chief information and security officer at Secuna. PHOTO COURTESY OF SECUNA

“WHHs are all ethical, moral, and cybersecurity professionals making an honest living. They enjoy the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and circumventing limitations to keep the Filipino business community safe,” he said.

“They are very familiar with the tactics of BHHs who are the ones who attack organizations to steal data, compromise systems, and do other kinds of cyber damage. WHHs use this knowledge and their expertise to counter the BHHs’ attack as well as assess the

DATA have become an invaluable resource that BHHs take advantage of to gain something, mostly financial. Through the years, they have proven to be sophisticated and creative geniuses when it comes to penetrating a system. Hence, malicious attacks on various organizations worldwide, big or small, have led to losses amounting to millions of dollars, and are feared to cost trillions today and beyond. These incidents have led businesses across the globe to be ultra careful, made them rethink their views on the importance of ethical hacking, and reconsidered their cybersecurity strategies. The proverbial “eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” might not always work in the real world, but to fight off a hacker with a hacker does. So an organization needs WHHs who have the same capabilities as the BHHs.

Bug bounties

INTERNATIONALLY, more and more ethical hackers are discovering and disclosing security vulnerabilities. Proof of which is

that vulnerability submissions to one of the best-known bug bounty programs, HackerOne, have increased by almost two-thirds since last year. Based on its 2021 Hacker Report, which details the development of penetration testing and ethical hacking over the last 12 months, the number of hackers submitting vulnerabilities during that period has grown by 63 percent. Bug bounty schemes are created to provide ethical hackers or WHHs a means of finding and reporting these vulnerabilities before cyber criminals could take advantage of them. In return, they are rewarded with financial incentives. Locally, Secuna is the largest cybersecurity-testing platform in the Philippines. The Department of Information and Communications Technology has certified it as a recognized Cybersecurity Assessment Service Provider. This company connects firms and brands to vetted and trusted international cybersecurity professionals who simulate cyberattacks and find security flaws that BHHs can exploit to gain access to IT systems. Even if platforms like Secuna Continued on A2

n JAPAN 0.4599 n UK 70.2925 n HK 6.4787 n CHINA 7.7970 n SINGAPORE 37.2270 n AUSTRALIA 37.2279 n EU 59.8566 n SAUDI ARABIA 13.4231

Source: BSP (July 30, 2021)

ALPHASPIRIT | DREAMSTIME.COM

www.businessmirror.com.ph


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.