PREDI C TI VE I NTEL L I GE NC E
The future of
SECURITY
is autonomous and decentralised
with Blockchain technology
As cyberthreats evolve, so do the technologies being used
globally to combat them. Dragan Petkovic, Security Product
Leader ECEMEA at Oracle, talks to Intelligent CISO about how
Blockchain technology could help put the end user back in the
‘driving seat’ while Machine Learning and AI help to reduce the
cyber-risk of cloud technology.
W
hen I started
working in
security, over 20
years ago, many
vendors made
claims about
passwords being
a thing of the past – those vendors are
no longer in business but passwords
very much are. This observation comes
to mind when making future predictions
about security.
With security breaches frequently
making headline news, it isn’t hard to
tell that enterprise security will become
job number one and much of it will
be automated. Organisations are not
getting better at security; they are
getting worse. With today’s borderless
enterprise, as a result of cloud, mobile
and edge technologies like the Internet
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of Things (IoT), there is a general
consensus that there is no such thing
as ‘total security’. As a result, business
information can no longer be protected
by the IT team trying to create digital
castles and restrictive access.
We are going to see an increased focus
on security, especially with regulations
such as GDPR that have come to the
play with hefty penalties associated
with failure to meet regulatory
standards. We can also expect to
see more CEOs that come from the
cybersecurity space because they
know how to manage the risk.
The future is autonomous
We will continue to see more companies
turning to the cloud for security –
research already shows that the more
mature users recognise that cloud
provides better security than an on-
premise environment. Alongside this,
the increasing complexity of technology
and advanced hacking practices, mean
that the legacy networks that have been
secure for the last 20 years, aren’t
any longer. Gartner also believes that
all major security failures will be the
customer’s fault and many of the recent
failures have proven this.
There’ll be the need for a zero trust-
based approach as skills will continue
to be scarce, security will increasingly
feature Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. As
Larry Ellison said at Oracle OpenWorld
last year, “We have to rethink how we
defend our information. We need new
systems. It can’t be our people versus
their computers. We’re going to lose that
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