When thinking about the events that are to happen within the coming years, especially the year 2025, it’s quite evident we are shifting to digital lives. With the more that we use technology the more that we need protection from cyber threats. Looking to the future, there can be no doubt that there are to emerge new and even more complicated problems as we go on to further evolve and integrate the global digital environment. Luckily, they are identifying the equipment and invention that will be used to safeguard and terrace our cyberspace in the proceeding decades.
Cyber threat and the development of cybersecurity
Cyber security has long been reduced to having ‘virus protection’, ‘firewalls’ and all sorts of computer protection shields that offers protection against cyber threats. However, the digital existence that now hangs on a thin digital wire from every aspect of our lives is also at risk from multiple threats: hacking, theft of data and impersonation.
In response to these growing threats, the field of cybersecurity has broadened its ground and adopted much more solutions. All of these innovations are designed to safeguard our data, our privacy, and our persona as the world continues to get wired and integrated in a way that begets the need to work and transact in cyberspace.
AI and the specifics of the Machine Learning
Another attracting field for developments in the cybersecurity sphere is the application of the artificial intelligence and machine learning. These technologies hold the possibility of giving an enforcement in real time contrary to the ever increasing number of threats from cyber criminals.
They can be equally used to detect threats from within large datasets thanks to the capabilities of AI. Aside from that, machine learning can help the organization to spot deviations from the normal patterns of operation that might indicate hackers have attacked the organization.
Further, AI and machine learning are also suitable for enhancing security automation to its further stages. For instance, instead of human software updating and patching humans, AI could be used to automate that.
Quantum Computing
With the threats of cybercrimes continuing to evolve quantum computing is expected to be the main shield for our digital existence. Using quantum bits, or qubits, quantum computing can be in many states at once. It allows a quantum computer to run many more computer programs, the computational formulas, faster than a regular computer.
By utilizing quantum computing, information can be provided absolute security — cyber criminals wouldn’t be able to decrypt this data. Also, quantum computing can be employed to make networks considerably more secure against the numerous instances of cyber threats trying to sneak into our data.
Biometric Security
Biometrical security is another perspective direction in the development of a cybersecurity system. The other type of security consists of usage of physical features like fingerprints, facial and voice recognition, and due to which, this type of security has a higher rank of security than rest traditional password security.
Some of the key trends most likely to surface in the future include: Biometrics security is likely to go mainstream due to ever-growing numbers of devices and services implementing biometric authentication to confirm individuals’ identities.
Blockchain Technology
Blockchain can influence cybersecurity in several manners because it is a distributed database that can be efficiently used to store and manage data. Blockchain is more of the distributed ledger where multiple parties can authenticate a transaction while it nearly impossible for the system to be prorgrammed or bent.
The most positive feature of the blockchain is the ability to provide a secure and safe space where data can be shared and stored. Just the way personal data such as medical records and financial posts can be stored safely and at the same time those who need to access those records are allowed to do so in an efficient way using blockchain.
It can also help enable the mechanism of a secure, efficient, and low fraud voting that all votes are properly recorded.
The Internet of Things (IoT)
In today’s world where the integration of technology is fast increasing the internet of things will be the leading factor in out digital lives. IoT is the catalogue of global connected apparata or machines including handhelds, wearables, homes, cities and much more.
However, it means new risks of cyber threats are associated with enhanced connectivity. As we have increasing numbers of devices connect to the internet, we also provide a lot more opportunity for cyber criminals to hit. To overcome these issues, there is the need to design new security models that are unique to the IoT environment.
The future IoT cybersecurity solutions will encompass the entire network and also individual devices. They can be from doing the augmentations in security policies and procedures or formulating new layers of controls, IT policies or risk management, and spearheading the use of AI machine learning for threat analysis.
Conclusion
It will become increasingly apparent that our digital lives are complex and woven into each other when the year 2025 rolls around, and it might already be so if you’re at it. It means for us personally, for our businesses, for our governments and for our data, to guard ourselves and the latter from the increasing adversaries that these cybercriminals present, we have to go for these new technologies in security.
Cybersecurity is going to have many changes in the future, some of them are: Artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum computing, biometric security, blockchain technology and IoT. When harnessed these tools we can uphold a safer digital world for generations to come and come up with a safe foundation which shields the future generations from having to encounter such incidents in their lives.
While it is impossible to predict exactly what the future holds, one thing is certain: it is a field that is active and capable to develop the solutions for our highly technological world at the future. Only Leuven’s passion for innovation, her capacity to look beyond borders and sectors to forge meaningful partnerships that will advance the safety and security of the digital environment for the people and future generations of tomorrow makes possible.
