Risks, Issues, and Opportunities, Starting Tomorrow
Mike Wills · 2019
This chapter discusses how to build skills with the physical, logical, and administrative controls to help the organization or business cope with information risk mitigation and management. Access control and identity management have taken a center-stage role in our continuing struggle to secure information systems. Several trend lines are merging together, it seems, as we think about how our information and our information security tools are getting smarter. One trend we see is how applied artificial intelligence (AI) is creating many different paradigms for software to interact with other software and, in the process, make the physical hardware that hosts that software take action in ways that perhaps are not quite what we anticipated when we built it. Another trend is in machine learning (ML), which is a subset of applied AI. ML, as it's called, tends to use meshes of processing elements (which can each be in software, hardware, or both) that look for statistical relationships between input conditions and desired outputs from that mesh; this training takes thousands of sets of inputs and lets the mesh compute its own parameters by which each processing element manipulates its inputs and its memory of previous results to produce and share an output with others in the mesh.