Which technologies present the most risk in 2017? ZDNet

A lot of exciting new technologies are emerging or maturing that will likely play an increasingly important role in our lives and help transform businesses and industries in the coming months and years. "Emerging technologies may have differing cyber security concerns than traditional IT systems, especially if they have components that impact the physical world, such as autonomous vehicles and smart medical devices," said Dan Klinedinst, senior vulnerability analyst in the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. "Because of this we plan to examine a dozen technologies that we expect to show emerging impacts on everyday life in 2017 and into the future," Klinedinst said. Autonomous cars - There are now autonomous cars already driving passengers on the road, so the autonomy element is becoming more of a factor because life and personal safety are now part of the risk. Commercial autonomous aerial vehicles - Most commercial drones are operated by pilots or fly on a predetermined path.