IOT SECURITY PROTECTING THE NETWORKED SOCIETY

whitePaper | November 23, 2022

The modern distributed workplace—including enterprises with thousands of branches and remote workers—requires updated approaches to cloud, networking, and security infrastructure. Cloud migration has opened the door to a huge increase in sophisticated applications, requiring networks that can carry traffic to an increasingly remote workforce. In turn, this creates a unique set of new requirements for security, including special capabilities to handle unpredictable locations of users, applications, and traffic flows.

whitePaper | May 4, 2022

The pandemic has brought about significant economic disruption, thereby increasing the need for banks and financial institutions to be more agile. However, Covid-19 is not the only factor that drives automation and digitalization in the credit and lending process in credit institutions. Incumbent banks are increasingly facing pressure from neobanks, these having the strategic advantage of being “born digital”. In addition, customers demand fully digitalized processes with regard to the ease of use and fast turnaround times.

whitePaper | November 24, 2022

High-profile examples of harm associated with algorithm failure and misuse have garnered significant public concern (e.g. manipulation of the democratic process, discriminatory practice in criminal justice sentencing, and bias against racial and gender categories in the labour market). The field of AI ethics refers to the literature and to the community of people interested in this space. One high-profile manifestation of this is the formation of specialist ethics councils and teams to deliberate on conundrums regarding the use, access and openness of platforms and technologies (such as social media and messaging apps, etc.). For instance, the banning of particular public figures as well as lay users for use of the services in a manner that is not acceptable has been a constant theme in the public debate.

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

Instead of following a set of rote, preprogrammed instructions, AI enables machines to learn, and then “act,” on information. Your voice-activated phone, technologies such as speech and image recognition, autonomous vehicles, the smart devices in your home—all of these advances were made possible by AI technology. AI also marks a fundamental advancement in critical, often time-consuming, business processes. It’s poised to dramatically enhance human decision-making and improve an organization’s ability to make predictions, automate business practices, and optimize logistics.

whitePaper | December 6, 2019

Machine learning (ML)-driven personalization is fast expanding from social media to the wider information space, encompassing legacy media, multinational conglomerates and digital-native publishers: however, this is happening within a regulatory and oversight vacuum that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Mass-scale adoption of personalization in communication has serious implications for human rights, societal resilience and political security. Data protection, privacy and wrongful discrimination, as well as freedom of opinion and of expression, are some of the areas impacted by this technological transformation.

whitePaper | April 16, 2020

Front Line Consulting (FLC) is a government consulting firm—and majority veteran-ownedand-operated Project Manager-as-Agent. Presently, FLC is managing a group of 60 publicly-funded projects for Travis County, home of the unequalled Austin, Texas. Front Line’s responsibilities include meeting a tight “substantial completion” deadline defined in public forum, coming in on (taxpayer-funded) budget, and keeping elected officials apprised of financials and material progress in projects within their respective jurisdictions.