Friday Rant – Rise of the Rogue-Bots?
Friday Rant – Rise of the Rogue-Bots?
Robots on the rampage?
Friday Rant – Rise of the Rogue-Bots?
The question chimes with the ongoing tabloid obsession with Terminators, malignant AIs, and job-stealing robots; it seems designed to stoke public fears about the rise of machine automation, a process that has been ongoing since the Eighteenth Century. And it comes – inevitably – from an enterprise cybersecurity provider with something to sell, Trend Micro.
The company has produced a detailed, 45-page report, Rogue Automation: Vulnerable and Malicious Code in Industrial Programming which at least grounds the issue in something prosaic and machine readable.
Hugh Taylor
Hugh Taylor is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). In addition to editing Journal of Cyber Policy, he writes about cybersecurity, compliance and enterprise technology for such clients as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, HPE, Oracle, Google and Advanced Micro Devices. Prior to launching his freelance writing career, he served in executive roles at Microsoft, IBM and several venture-backed technology startups.