Growth consulting firm Frost & Sullivan has released a report on its security predictions for this year, and it places a major focus on cyber security. The company expects at least ten major cyber security acquisitions, and believes there will be an increasing trend of publicly acknowledged cyber attacks.Frost & Sullivan’s experts also believe that the Internet of Things will drive American and European governments to invest heavily in “related hardware and analytics.” That will certainly entail some security, and despite legislators’ puzzlement over how to regulate the IoT, as it expands there will certainly be an increasingly obvious need to heed the warnings of security experts.
Other trends pointed out in the report also have important implications with respect to biometric technologies. The Frost & Sullivan researchers say that the year will see both a major focus on borders and migration, and a renewed focus from governments on the safety of citizens. That will likely mean an increasing proliferation of biometric passports and other such identification documents, which is already starting to emerge all over the world.
Moreover, the researchers predict that wearable devices, and cameras in particular, “will become increasingly widespread”. That will surely provoke some resistance with respect to privacy and civil rights concerns, but at the same time the technology has found advocates from across the political spectrum in the wake of recent high-profile police shootings.
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February 2, 2015 – by Alex Perala
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