Where I Will Be Putting My Money in 2015

Tech Trends for 2015

December 29, 2014

As my last official blog entry of 2014, I am reminded of how interesting a year this has been in Information Security and Technology in general. I enjoy reading other people’s predictions for 2015, and decided for once that I would throw my hat into the proverbial ring, and don’t worry I don’t have that much money to lose.

As many of my friends know I despise buzzwords, but they do have one (and really only one use). Buzzwords are encumbered with overly broad definitions and burdened with unnecessary baggage, as each competitor attempts to make their product fit.  So, here are some buzzwords that will be up and coming, or returning in 2015, and those that will be shelved and those that perhaps should just be bronzed and never used again.

For Technology

• Cloud -- / Cloud ++ : New Cloud Definitions, as if this buzzword was not broad enough.
• SDN : Same
• NFV ++
• Virtual Datacenter ++
• Hypervisor -- : Less discussion of an actual hypervisor
• OpenStack ++
• Wearables ++
• Health ++
• Consumer ++
• Corporate --
• Mobile Security
• MDM --
• MAM --
• Manufacturer Security ++
• IoT +  Slow incremental increase
• Mobile Payments ++
• Socialized Encryption Solutions ++
• Network Security
• Firewalls : Not going anywhere because they are required by many compliance and regulatory bodies.
• Virtual Detection Systems ++
• SOC --
• Managed --
• Partnered ++
• Machine Learning ++
• Bigdata --
• SIEM --
• Security Socialization ++ : Security coordination between Service Providers

And by 2016 There Still :

• Won’t be a usable Calendar program.
• Will not be a good Security Alert Notification System
• Will not be a good enough Company Reputation Dashboard

.wdnii.

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Information Aggregation

Information Visualization and Aggregation

June 10, 2013

The way I think of Information aggregation are processes which organize the incoming flow into various streams or channels, yes, channels like  television. These channels could be, for example, like sections of a newspaper, “Sports”, “Current”, “Politics”, and can be grouped further by how well you trust the source such as: qualified information, unqualified information and advertising Information, or by the information being pushed up or down by other site users, such as on reddit.

There are way too many applications to individually name, but I am particularly interested in mobile apps, and the best appear to be: Flipboard, Google Now, Google Currents and Taptu.

Taptu has a nice interface, but ignores social media sites and only has access to news.

Google Currents does not aggregate between information providers, so you cannot see just a general category of ‘Sports’. But you can view the articles in the LA Times, for example. The information display feels to be displayed more by a program than by human design.

Google Now places applications on the google search page to customize information selection and the display dynamic, such as providing current conditions effecting the daily commute.

Flipboard is one of the more interesting applications. They provide access to social networking posts from your friends, magazines, newspapers and current trending social networking and news feeds. Some of the magazine articles are the initial teaser and then you are prompted to subscribe if you want to read the entire article. Flipboard uses a pictorial interface, like an advanced Tumblr., and Flipboard does display Tumblr. blogs better than Tumblr. The interface feels designed, less robotic.

Finally Android OS and the various widgets can fit into this category allowing aggregation updates, but each widget has a slightly different look and feel, not providing a uniform experience.

Next I expect we will see News TV aggregation would pull out snippets of the news programs for you to view only on the topics you were interested. You could build your own 30 minute news TV show from the various programs. Probably a few copyright issues to clear first.

Another along the same thought would aggregate articles on a single topic eliminating redundancy creating one article with all of the information. Be kind of interesting to run editorials from opposing points of view.

And an aggregation stream that will include radio and social tv channels, along with social picture, blogs, and the pay for media sites.

Finally, the big changes will come when some company can provide a subscription service which includes most all of the various premium content for one monthly fee. This will encourage a pay stream for internet content which is currently underperforming compared to other content/information delivery systems.

wdnii

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