John McClurg

The Philosopher Hericlitus once opined – “You can’t step in the same river twice,” implying that no concept remains static but is always churning and evolving.

While VR and AR have different fortes, both enhance and accelerate experiential learning that can help manifest and reinforce a culture of cybersecurity across industries. It is technology implications like this that will help propel cybersecurity awareness into a state of mass awareness.

Anxious feelings towards facial recognition can, if unchecked, reach a point where they undermine common sense and our ability to leverage new technologies in the protection of the innocent and prosecution of the guilty.

On a recent trip to Australia, I appeared on a National morning news show. It wasn’t long until the hosts were trying to get me to weigh in on a debate that was then raging in their legislature.

The confluence of social media, digital mobile devices, sensors and location-based technology is generating unprecedented volumes of information about society and individuals.

Rene Descartes, philosopher and mathematician, wrote: “Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.”

We just celebrated President’s Day. Folklore has it that during the American Revolution, George Washington was approached by an enquiring member of the press who asked: “George! George! What keeps you up at night?”

Each year’s ending is replete with predictions of what the year ahead portends. In this practice, the security sector is no stranger.