The year 2019 continued to take forward the trends in the world of Information Technology with increased usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning. But controversies also cropped up on the use of social media, impacting the industry and common man. The common man has started feeling the need to regulate the sector to ensure harmonious and progressive growth. It was in 2019 that people started thinking on these lines, especially after WhatsApp started spying on Indian journalists and human rights activists earlier this year. The Facebook-owned company also accepted that Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally that were spied on by unidentified entities using Pegasus, an Israeli spyware.

Cyber security vendor Sophos is invoking the spirit of famed English evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin to rally the security industry around its vision for connected cyber defence, opening the company up to working with APIs and other third parties to tackle sophisticated threats. Former Sophos product SVP Dan Schiappa, who is now the company's chief innovation officer, said the industry should take a joined-up approach to applying artificial intelligence to security decisions. Speaking with Computerworld UK, Schiappa explained how the company's internally named'Darwin Project' evolved from its previous work. "About four years ago we introduced the concept of'synchronised security' and this is where security products speak directly to one another, and share information," he said during a telephone interview. "The simplest example was, if we saw a compromise at an endpoint, it would share that information to the firewall and then the firewall would eliminate that endpoint from being able to talk to the outside world."