Programmable World #TechVision Though some businesses today might prefer Significantly, risks to security and data privacy 125%, and there were 1.5 billion attacks just on Tackling these challenges head on is the key to keep their programmable world technologies will not be relegated to the digital world but smart devices – more than double the number to moving fast in the programmable world. It within a closed ecosystem, there are growing will have serious consequences in the physical of attacks over the same period the year takes time to deploy real-world technologies – 100,101 reasons to move away from these kinds of walled world too. The size and scale of the exposure, before. These attackers can steal personal especially consumer-facing ones – so getting it gardens. Customers are already wary of giving direct impacts, and secondary impacts have or corporate data, mine cryptocurrency, or right from the beginning is critical. The choices companies too much control over their digital the potential to be greater than ever, and this all create botnets. And in 2020, ransomware attacks businesses make today – across every aspect of lives, and with the digital world increasingly becomes exponentially riskier as more devices were up 150%, and the amount that victims paid developing programmable world technologies, bleeding into the physical one, people may be from more companies are connected together. grew more than 300% to an average of over but especially concerning their ability to securely 102,103 even less willing to buy into a single company $200,000. By mid-year, 2021 was already on connect with other devices – will impact their 104 in the future. Imagine a simple scenario in which a person track to be worse. “Triple extortion” techniques innovation agility long into the future. They will walks to the store to purchase a smart coffee have also become much more common, determine the kinds of environments companies What’s more, customer satisfaction isn’t all pot – because his old one won’t connect to his whereby hackers threaten to not only make a can design, the partners that they can have, that’s at stake – interoperability will soon be new virtual personal assistant. On his way, he company’s sensitive data public but to also target and the speed at which they can introduce required from a safety standpoint too. For now, pulls out his smartphone to check for directions. their customers, vendors, and business partners. new offerings. if a car’s infotainment system doesn’t connect However, his phone has been hacked and is wirelessly, it may be frustrating. But tomorrow, simultaneously mining for Bitcoin – he just As more of the world comes online, cyberattacks if an autonomous vehicle can’t connect to a car doesn’t realize it. When he arrives at the store, and data privacy breaches will have even more made by another manufacturer, people’s lives cameras using facial recognition determine who serious consequences. In 2019, two white could be at stake. he is and track his movements and purchases. hat hackers needed only minutes to exploit a Later tonight, that data will be compromised weakness in the Tesla Model 3 infotainment Second, as businesses scale up their in a data breach. When he gets home, he plugs system and get inside the car’s computers to 105 programmable world projects, they will be in his new smart coffee pot that unfortunately issue commands. Imagine what happens as introducing many more connected, intelligent still uses the default admin password, leaving autonomous machines, from cars to drones, devices and creating new entry points his home network – which he increasingly uses vacuums, and construction equipment, become connecting our physical and digital worlds. to work from home – vulnerable to attack. common – the possibility of vulnerabilities Each of these entry points opens possibilities increases, along with the damage that for innovation and new kinds of customer If this scenario sounds far-fetched, it shouldn’t. can be done. experiences, but each also creates potential risk. In the first half of 2021, cyberattacks were up Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 50