Innovation Outpacing Preparation
The business proposition of AR is causing it to be adopted before the risks have been vetted or having tech developed by companies without significant IT experience, leading to technologies that are actually incompatible with existing infrastructure. I strongly recommend including IT security experts in your early AR discussions, as they can help you vet security capabilities and adopt your security best practices.
Dark Clouds
Many wearable AR companies require cloud connectivity, which exposes new threat vectors. Those vectors include:
• Data moving to and from the cloud can often be intercepted. Even TLS encryption can be breakable with common IT infrastructure stacks that do packet inspection.
• Interruptions of internet connections can disrupt production.
• Cloud servers can be breached, potentially exposing sensitive data.
...
To appreciate how quickly new realities can replace old assumptions, consider the extraordinary speed with which quantum computing capabilities — which are already starting to make standard RSA encryption look vulnerable — are increasing. We're not at the exponential rate described by Moore’s Law, which famously states that computing power roughly doubles every two years — but double the exponential rate.
At that pace, new threats can emerge and reliable security protocols become obsolete quite literally overnight. Implementing your cyber strategy is an ongoing process to keep up with the sophisticated threats of an increasingly connected — and increasingly augmented — world.
See the full story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/09/06/cybersecurity-and-the-explosion-of-augmented-reality/#7df41bab3c07