Wednesday, January 8, 2014

TECH FUTURE SPECIAL...Do You Know What Life Will Be Like In 5 Years? IBM's Top Scientist Does (4)



Do You Know What Life Will Be Like In 5 Years? IBM's Top Scientist Does
4. You Will Have A Digital Guardian
More than 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2012. To date, more than $21 billion in losses has been reported in 2013. These alarming numbers call for changes in the way personal information is protected.
In the future, security will become an entity that will care about you as an individual. Each of us will be protected with our own digital guardian that will proactively monitor things you cannot monitor, and can protect and alert you on your interests.
"If you had this electronic persona and then your digital guardian sees behaviors that lie outside of what that norm for that persona would be, the guardian instantly jumps all over it, clamps down, stops it, and just pokes you politely and says, ‘Are you sure you want to be sending all your personal information to this remote Web site located halfway around the world and run by a bunch of guys we, frankly, know to be thieves? Hint, hint, hint.’”
All of this is possible via cognitive computing, where machines can learn our behaviors and improve our user experience--in this case, the security of our personal information.
In the next five years, security is going to become more agile and contextual, making the right decisions for you. By constantly analyzing past data and the stream of daily events, it will look for deviations that could be precursors to an attack and a stolen identity. No longer will a bank or institution solely decide which transactions look suspicious--your digital guardian acting as an intelligent agent across all your devices and IDs will help determine what’s legitimate and what’s not.
"Right now there is no such thing," says Meyerson. "But it is actually already being developed and deployed at the commercial level." 
 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3023514/futurist-forum/do-you-know-what-life-will-be-like-in-5-years-ibms-top-scientist-does?partner=newsletter

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