It’s imperative security leaders constantly prepare their organizations for future threats. Conveniently, many of these potential threats are explored in one TV show.
It’s been three years since the security profession — and the world — lost one of its most powerful tools for identifying technology-related threats: new episodes of the dystopian TV series “Black Mirror.” Since its debut in 2011, the show has uncannily predicted both threats to security and mankind. True, much of the technology covered in the program already existed, but the producers reimagined the use of the technology in a way that no one had previously considered.
During the show’s heyday, ”Black Mirror”plots would come up all the time at security conferences to explore how useful tools could turn bad. The show was valuable for its foresight, and in fact, security leaders should always be working with staff or consultants to peer into the near and middle future to prepare their organizations for both forthcoming threats and opportunities. The good news is that this powerful tool called ”Black Mirror” will be coming back: Netflix recently announced it will be filming a sixth season of the show after the long hiatus.