Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 16 | Page 59

INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Enterprise Security IDC releases 2017 Global Security Product & Service predictions B y 2021, 50% of online transactions will use biometric authentication, and by 2018, 70% of enterprise cyber security environments will use cognitive/AI technologies to assist humans in dealing with the vastly increasing scale and complexity of cyber threats, IDC predicted in its latest forecasts for the global security product and services. “Cyberspace security will be one of the key boosters of productivity,” James Wang (add hyper link to James English profile here), Senior www.intelligentcio.com By 2018, 70% of enterprise cyber security environments will use cognitive/AI technologies to assist humans in dealing with the vastly increasing scale and complexity of cyber threats Research Manager of Market Network Security at IDC China, said. “And it will become increasingly important as people are embracing for the extremely convenient revolutionary lifestyles that Smart City is bringing to them.” Cyber space security was a hot topic at the recently-concluded RSA Conference in San Francisco, where cloud security, IoT security, Threat Intelligence Security Service (TISS), artificial intelligence (AI), machine intelligence (MI) and other technology developments were widely discussed, indicating that they will be on high agenda of the global cyberspace security for the next few years. INTELLIGENTCIO 59