Security Technology: Efficiency, Trust, Communications Driving Change

AT the heart of technological changes over time are core things like processing power, developments in network infrastructure, falls in price and re-imaginings of the user interface. But the next 5 years will deliver on some building trends that are going to need to be carefully managed. Artificial intelligence is one of these trends. It's been coming for decades but with many countries, including Australia, taking different layers of citizen ID biometric, and most manufacturers starting to deliver on past ROI promises, it's clear that AI is going to be central to the future of our systems. It will make them more efficient, more powerful and more frightening. The paradox of AI is that it will need to be kept on a short leash to achieve its full potential – whether we're already past that point of control remains to be seen.