Artificial Intelligence: Top Six Trends To Look Out For in

 Edited content by Nhlanhla Skosana

In his 2017 forecast, Scott Zoldi, a top analyst for the world-leading big data analytics, artificial intelligence and cyber security company, FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation)*,suggested that we were “just at the beginning of the golden age of analytics, in which the value and contributions of AI [artificial intelligence], machine learning [ML] and deep learning will only grow as we accept and incorporate these tools into our businesses” .

According to Scott, the development and use of these technologies will continue to thrive at a dubious pace regardless of the hiccups experienced in 2017.

1.    Everything done by AI will be in the forefront to be able to fight back, as criminals have learnt to use malicious AL and ML to evade the system of companies.

2.    Answers will be provided by Explainable AI (XAI) should there be a need for explanations of the decisions based on scores including those produced by AI and ML systems. However, AI has previously dealt with challenge in fraud and credit risk decisions

3.     In 2018 however, AI will supplement the work place. Not just through better software, but through the facilitation of increasingly better versions of ourselves.

4.    I believe that in 2018, companies will focus on operationalising AI, particularly in the cloud, to more easily build, refine, deploy and enhance machine learning environments.

5.    It is becoming difficult to verify what is real versus fake. In 2018 chatbots will rapidly become more sophisticated, dramatically reducing costs of routine customer care activities while also improving the customer experience.

6.    Block chain technology will soon record “time chains of events,” where people and the items they interact with will have encrypted identities.

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By Simeon Tassev, managing director and QSA at Galix Networking

Edited by: Nhlanhla Skosana

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The dissipating cybersecurity: What’s in store for organisations?

Cyber security is no longer providing organisations with security as ought to be. The continued rise in the emergence of Ransom ware as a Service makes the malware accessible to even those with fewer skills to tackle the encrypted data.

Cyber attacks are not only experienced by organisations in South Africa but are a global issue. As threats continue to develop and evolve, organisations are being put in risk and also this may cause severe reputational damage to the organisation. Gartner has recently revealed their IT predictions, many of which are global predictions:

ü  The increasing adoption of cloud services and looming promise of hyper scale cloud environments in South Africa will place a strong focus on cloud security.

ü  Key technology trends such as the Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, advanced biometrics and Chabot will feature more prominently in the development of cyber security tools and solutions.

ü  Gartner predicts that by 2020,IoT technology will be in 95% of electronics for new product designs.

ü  Data protection tools will be expensive.

However, there are ways in which these organisations could either prevent or recover from these cyber threats.

ü  It could work in the organisations’ favour if they can implement new ways of structuring their cloud environment for the security of these organisations.

ü  They should also learn not store their information on one cloud but rather back it up and keep some of the backed-up data offline.

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