In the movie “Back to the Future II,” protagonist Marty McFly travels forward to the year 2015. During a quick stop at Café 80s, Marty encounters two children, confused by the 80s-style arcade game in the store. When Marty shows them how to play, the kids retort with, “You mean you have to use your hands?”
We may soon have a generation of young internet users that quip, “You mean you have to use wires?”
Wireless LAN, Bluetooth connectivity or mobile data transfer (which will explode with the wider deployment of 5G) are ubiquitous today. So what does this mean to the everyday person? And what can the everyday person, along with their enterprise, do to minimize threats against their data? Today’s behavior means anyone can learn to handle some of their own cybersecurity problems when it comes to personal or corporate email and access concerns.
For proof that we are “going mobile” at high speed, consider in just four short years, we have gone from 2.5 billion smartphone users worldwide to 3.5 billon users. And in approximately that same time frame, mobile data traffic nearly quadrupled from 11.51 exabytes per month to 40.77, with an expected jump to nearly 80 exabytes per month by 2022.
What About Changes in Behavior?
Some of us remember the times of using one desktop computer for almost all of our computing needs. Then, there was an important behavioral aspect to it all. We used computers mostly for work, school or other specific functions, like for video games. We genuinely “unplugged.”
In my own life, there were ..
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