SOFTWARE amount of data . Man or machine ? In a recent report , Derek Manky , FortiGuard Lab ’ s Chief of Security Insights and Global Threat Alliances at FortiNet , highlighted the threats facing the data centre industry and the role he expects AI to have in identifying , containing and neutralising them . “ 2020 demonstrated the ability of cyber adversaries to leverage dramatic changes happening in our daily lives as new opportunities for attacks at an unprecedented scale ,” he says . According to William Dixon , Head of Future Networks and Technology at the World Economic Forum , and Nicole Eagan , CEO at Darktrace , “ The battleground of the future is digital , and AI is the undisputed weapon of choice ,” both in the hands of cyber security professionals and the bad actors they seek to defeat .
While AI and machine learning are often hailed ( by machine learning cyber security companies ) as a silver bullet for handingly more and increasingly complex cyber risk , Sayer remains unconvinced . “ Machine learning can leverage experience from all users of a particular system stack and / or software to compare known outcomes in all observed contexts , which can help
“ Data privacy is a mega trend and highprofile data breaches have become a far too common occurrence ”
FREDRIK FORSLUND VP ENTERPRISE & CLOUD ERASURE SOLUTIONS , BLANCCO
The remote work revolution
In a whitepaper titled The Future of Remote Work released last year , Upwork ’ s chief economist , Adam Ozimek , revealed some of his findings as the worldwide “ unexpected and massive trial run ” of a remote economy was rapidly thrown into high gear . He noted that , while remote work was undeniably on the rise during the two decades preceding the COVID-19 pandemic , remote workers still “ comprised a relatively modest share of the labor force .” Only 2.3 % of 1,500 hiring managers surveyed in Ozimek ’ s report were overseeing a wholly-remote workforce , and only about 13 % of the total workforce was fully remote . Just a few months later , the pandemic raised that figure to around 50 %. On the whole - as I ’ m sure many of us can attest - the worldwide experience with remote work has been a relatively positive one . Survey respondents told Ozimek that “ the greatest perceived benefits of remote work include a lack of commute , fewer unnecessary meetings , and reduced distractions at the office ,” and “ as a result of their experiences during COVID-19 , 61.9 % of hiring managers say their workforce will be more remote going forward .”
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