Tag: predictions
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Six months goes fast: December’s Predictions
End-of-year predictions are fun. But the last six months were as surprising as the six before. How did we do?
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By 2030, Captcha for AI
Ask any sysadmin and they’ll tell you humans are the easiest way to penetrate a network. Been that way long before Kevin Mitnick. In 2020, deep fake tools and GPT-3 are convincing. How soon before they defeat prove-you’re-human tests? Then, how long before they convincingly replicate the behavior of trusted network devices? WiderPoV: Ten years…
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By 2025, the vendor risk crisis explodes #SocialGraphOfThings
What if we checked each of our vendors? And their vendors? And their vendors? And their vendors? And their… WiderPoV: Vendor security screening is rare in industry. Only the largest of institutions have the will, clout, and resources to force vendors to vet. So, three responses to this crisis. 1. Join an ecosystem (or make…
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By 2025, Mixed Reality takes a bite out of mobile
6G gets a global rollout five years from now, giving augmented reality its missing identity, security, bandwidth, location data, and coverage. Mixed Reality gear will directly replace mobile phones and other screens in your life. MR glasses, contact lenses, earbuds, rings, cuffs, bracers, bracelets, and other wearables erode mobile sales faster than smartphones replaced dumb…
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By 2025, consumer medtech in space.
By 2025, Nokia’s modified 4G lunar cellular network will be covering Moonbase Alpha, fitbits will be on Dragon flights, and Alexa will counsel you en route to Barsoom. WidelyPoV: Constraints drive innovation. Designing for medtech in space is like designing for rural, disaster-strewn, low-infrastructure places. Plan for high-latency, low power, unreliable connectivity. For solar radiation.…
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By 2025, Climate action will fuel IoT investment
Come the day humans take the climate crisis seriously, IoT will be ready. Here’s hoping it’s long before 2025. More Wider predictions.
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In 2021, humans-first policies pervade IIoT, IoMT
GDPR and CCPA are government manifesting public will to have more control over their digital lives. This is a long term trend and it’s gathering momentum. Expect this to deepen as it spreads into the world of clinical facts and the analysis derived from those observations. Are your apps and hospital beds, your security systems…
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In 2021, Identity Composability proliferates telehealth services and platforms
Telehealth is made of component services and devices. Identity, text chat, video chat, notes, maybe sensor history. Identity is itself composed of a number of services. What if telehealth was was a feature of something bigger? A care team collaborative tool, maybe. Or a neighborhood check-in program. A school nurse for kids. Or a… Watch…
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In 2021, cost optimization pulls along digital identity federation
Covid sucked up cash, budget, and reserves. So cost controls rule in 2021. WiderPoV: Federating identity, improving identity quality, agility, reach, trust, and reuse saves money. This is the short-term business case for high assurance digital identity, if you need it. The medium-term case: resilience against your next 17 disruptions. Long term? Opportunities to organize your…
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In 2021, CV19 will still fuel healthcare’s digital transformation
Epic and Cerner will jump on the covid-fueled telehealth bandwagon, awkwardly. But their hunger to control every digital touch point will reach into remote monitoring, telehealth, and consumer devices, and each connected e-health device outside a healthcare facility. Healthcare IT doesn’t want to manage vast fleets of unmanageable devices. WiderPoV: But being part of patient lives between encounters…
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In 2021, gov defensive infosec spending doubles
2021 will have as many or more disasters as 2020. Even more cyber crime, terror, and war. Defensive cyber spending by government agencies has been a tiny fraction of offensive spending, by headcount. Dramatic events can and will change this. WiderPoV: Massive public sector hiring in prevention, intervention, and recovery will pull talent from an…
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In 2021, biopharma and medical supply chains up their #IoT identity ecosystems
Supply chains always get short shrift. In 2020 they got attacked. The immune response? Newer identity and security models and tools. For example, Trust over IP federates governance. More visibility, live tracking, deeper tracing. WiderPoV: Supply chain identity feels like known territory, with proven tools nicely deployed giving adequate results. But expectations soared in 2020. Do…
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