With the increasing Growth in Technological advances such as 5G, IOT, advanced Technologies in different fields such as Smart container terminals, self-driving vehicles, electric grid powered by renewables have also increased. What do these technological advances have in common? They depend on a lot of devices, including smartphones, sensors, cameras, and personal digital assistants being connected to a network. And while this connectivity enables the world to run smarter, it also puts cyber security at the forefront.
Due to all these advances in Technology with increased connectivity of many devices there is an increasing risk that cyber attacks pose. “The attacks will become a very common phenomenon in the coming world. “Any single one of these critical vulnerabilities can lead to your system being hacked and controlled by the attacker.”
One of the major focuses is to ensure the reliability of open source software. In recent years, open source software has been playing an ever more central role in keeping the world running smoothly. In theory, software coded openly and collaboratively is as safe, if not safer, than proprietary software because anyone can inspect the source code for vulnerabilities. At the same time, open source software can become a vulnerability itself if no one is actually checking the source code. We need to watch out for Vulnerabilities in Open source software.
Regulators need to move at the pace of Technological Advances, but sometimes technology evolves too quickly for regulations to keep up. “The tech industry moves quickly. And there is a big gap how to regulate at the speed of tech. Tech industry moves much faster than Most regulatory Bodies, and we don’t really have a good theory of agile regulation. So right now, us in society, need to work out how to regulate technology at technology’s pace.”
Also, vendors need to produce products that are Robustfull & resilient to cyber-attacks, Product and data configurations that can standard the increasing cyber insecurity in the Technology world, for example, firewall configurations must be able to defend against attacks from hackers.
When Individuals, Companies are fully connected with out the fears of Cyber security Insecurities then we have a Safe connected world which increases Trust for Individuals and Companies to use more and More advanced technologies which improves their quality of Life
Report is from Huawei Uganda CSPO Kevin.
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