FINAL WORD
The onus is now
on application,
cloud and
security experts
like F5, working
closely with
the channel at
every juncture,
to map out a
coherent road
ahead and bring
multifaceted
potential to life.
around advanced app development and
knowledge engineering.
There are some key elements that
organisations need to embrace in order to
safeguard future business and stay ahead
of the technology curve. Transactional
changes in the way we engage with
customers and secure sensitive information
are paramount for the digital economy.
Markets are moving faster, competition is
operating smarter and communities want
to be more secure when they trade.
The FoA report highlights how many
experts across EMEA believe emerging
technologies and cultures will impact
firms and pave the way for a generation
engendered with greater embedded
capabilities. The scope for prevention of
cyber attacks and breaches is purported
to rise through predictive intelligence.
Firms and consumers alike are aware that
healthcare and medical information is the
lifeblood of personal identity. The future
well-being of an individual is not confined
to just diagnosing and treating physical
problems, but ensuring that cognitive
activity is monitored and more effectively
managed too.
Rodolfo Rosini, CEO & Co-founder at
weave.ai, stated in the FoA report, “There
are a lot of start-ups that are using audio,
and the accelerometer, to catch early signs
of Alzheimer’s, or Parkinson’s before a
human. So, already they pass humans,
they are superhuman in the sense that they
already can catch tremors or voice, issues
with your voice, better than a doctor. They
can show you symptoms one or two years
before a doctor will be able to observe
them”. He continued by stating, “I think
if you look at Alexa, you see a glimpse of
the future, where an app is not an app . . .
it’s not so much that the app will change,
it’s the underlying platform on which you
build the apps that will change. As AI
becomes more powerful, apps can become
more complex and interact with each
other and perform a lot of predictive and
contextual understanding of your request.”
Biometrics will provide a future in
which our human interface with apps will
evolve dramatically while opening the
possibility for new, individual realities. The
DNA of data is projected to be inherent
in all that we do and the way in which we
interact with a smart society that utilises
an ecosystem of solutions to engage,
exchange and verify identities. “I see a
day where things will be layered. You can
have my face in your database, so that my
front door can unlock; that’s fine, but if you
want my biometrics to unlock my financial
information, I am going to need to provide
you with a verbal PIN. I think rather than
a one-time-only (PIN), every month you
have to agree via fingerprint that the app
will have permissions,” commented Paul
Armstrong, Founder, HERE/FORTH, an
emerging technology consultancy.
In contrast, biometric security is not
always seen as a silver bullet. Melanie
Rieback, CEO & Co-Founder, Radically
Open Security, the world’s first non-
profit computer security consultancy
company (Amsterdam), gave her views
on the challenges with biometrics, “I
think biometrics are scary and should be
avoided. If a hacker steals your password
you can just change it. If a hacker steals
your fingerprints you’re stuck. The other
thing also is that your biometrics are
not a secret . . . somebody could lift my
fingerprints from a glass and it takes a
very short amount of time to build and
fabricate a fake fingerprint if needs be,
whether you’re looking at veins or at hand
geometry or at really any characteristic,
or somebody’s voice. Biometrics can be
useful for identification of a person, but I
think it’s completely inappropriate to be
used as authentication.”
Smarter, faster and safer
Experts from around the globe generally
predict an optimistic outlook for the
cybersecurity and technology industry.
From software vendors to channel
networks, the rapid progress made by
developers offers an evolution of exciting
capabilities integrating AI with robust
biometric implant technologies to achieve
a smarter, faster and safer society. Think
about your own prospects: secure sensory
services powered by the superhuman app.
As we look ahead, being an embedded
body certainly embodies the business of
the future.
There are
some key
elements that
organisations
need to embrace
in order to
safeguard
future business
and stay
ahead of the
technology
curve.
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