Have you ever uploaded a photo of you and your friends to Facebook, only to see that Facebook has self-identified your friends in the photo and asked permission to tag them? This identification process utilizes a form of artificial intelligence (AI). You likely use other forms of AI throughout your day without even realizing it: through Siri’s speech recognition, Google’s search engine, and even through spam filters that clean up your email inbox.
Read MoreThe US Government is currently drafting a 'green paper' in preparation of presenting a formal policy on the Internet of Things (IoT), acknowledging the highly insecure technologies that have hit the market in recent years. Demonstrating the growth of this market, the research and consulting firm Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 6.4 billion connected devices will be in use worldwide in 2016, increasing to 20.8 billion by 2020.
Read MoreA series of media reports throughout the summer drew attention to various vulnerabilities in many of today’s Internet-connected vehicles. While the identified security gaps present serious risks to public safety and certainly warrant an industry-wide response, it is important to note that there have since been no reports of malicious hijacking of a vehicle’s vital functions by a cyber threat actor.
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