Experts discuss how artificial intelligence is being used to protect venues by screening for items such as bombs, guns, and knives. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to help secure sites from sports arenas to churches and schools. The technology is being used to scan for weapons, including guns, knives and explosives as people walk between standing panels. If a weapon is spotted, security standing by is alerted. Massachusetts based Evolv has used the technology to scan roughly 300 million people across the country since the system went live in 2019, second only to the TSA.

The dictates of big data--its inner manipulations and trends--have defined the very form of the data ecosystem since the inception of these technologies nearly a decade ago. It's become entrenched in the most meaningful dimensions of data management, implicit to all but its most mundane practices, and indistinguishable from almost any type of data leveraged for competitive advantage. As such, current momentum in the big data space isn't centered on devising new expressions of its capabilities, but rather on converging them to actualize the long sought, rarely realized, time honored IT ideal of what Cambridge Semantics CTO Sean Martin termed "interoperability. And, the more the data starts to support that, the more interesting that gets, too." The grand vision of interoperability involves the capacity to readily interchange enterprise systems and resources as needed to maximize business productivity without technological restrictions.

BlackBerry this week announced their AI-Powered Intelligent Security product, and I'm very impressed, and I wish we'd had this decades ago. I've run several security units over the years across several companies. One of the recurring themes is that we don't focus on employees enough, given that's where most of the breaches I've tracked have originated. Now sometimes the breaches have been intentional like when a VP of sales gave a highly confidential document I created to a competitor before taking a job there. Some have been accidental like when a CEO left his laptop unsecured, and his son went in and renamed his critical files.