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Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party?

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Technology Adoption: Are we too late to the party?

Jan Havránek and Daniel P. Bagge 

Tech

Future technologies:  Source: NATO, “Science & Technology Trends: 2020-2040.”

Introduction

NATO and the West are experiencing a reversed kind of revolution in military affairs (RMA) with new technologies bearing far-reaching implications beyond the conduct of war. Past revolutions in military spilled from the battlefield to the civilian sector. They had an effect either by directly impacting the result of a given conflict or through adoption of military technical advantages in non-military aspects of life. Today, we see an opposite trend brought by the private and non-military, non-governmental actors. In their everyday lives, general publics and governments alike face military-grade technologies developed and applied by the commercial sector. And it is the private sector that enjoys exclusivity over these technologies while the military lags behind.

How information is gathered, processed, analysed, communicated, distributed, and utilized has always underlined military planning and assumptions for success in conflict. For example, the reconnaissance strike complex introduced by the Soviets was based on real-time intelligence gathering and underpinned by automated systems and fast data processing. Similarly, NATO’s deep attack concept assumed that commanders “would be given the automated assessment means necessary to rapidly analyse the enemy’s force array.”[1] Such concepts, however innovative and tech-based, assumed a relatively limited amount of data and relied heavily on the human factor. Today, in the era of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, there is a clear shift towards sensor-centric, automated processing. Reconnaissance and analysis are becoming as important as firepower and kinetic effects. Humans are being pushed out from the decision-making due to the quantity of information gathered/coming from the battlefield. The hyper-speed warfare (or the “hyper war,” a term linking the intensity of conflict with cybernetics) risks making the human factor almost obsolete. To a certain extent, human presence in the loop will consequently become more a question of…

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What China’s Communist Party Centenary Means for India

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In a marked moment of political triumph for communism, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is on the verge of celebrating one hundred years of formation in July 2021. Founded by a handful of revolutionaries in 1921, the CCP’s long journey has been subject to critical and intense political debate, chaos, and authoritarian trajectory aimed at taking China ahead. The contemporary nationalistic fervor attached to the forthcoming celebration arrives when the geopolitical climate is exceedingly tense and not favoring China.

According to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Boao Forum speech, the CCP’s centennial anniversary is a commemoration of how the Party “has striven forward against all odds in a relentless pursuit of happiness for the Chinese people, rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the common good for the world.” It signifies the year when the Party achieves its goal of a “moderately prosperous society” in a new era of Chinese domestic and foreign policy, as it begins to work towards its second goal of becoming a “great modern socialist country” in 2049. This has major implications for leading democracies across the world, and especially for China’s Asian rival power, India. What does the CCP’s one-hundredth anniversary, and the changes in Beijing’s international outlook post the centennial, mean for New Delhi?

Beijing’s highly controversial political arrests under the new Hong Kong National Security Law, its doubling down on repressive Xinjiang policies, its explicit threats to Taiwan, maritime adventurism in the South and East China Seas, wolf warrior diplomacy vis-à-vis Australia, and territorial expansionist tendencies with India have become hallmarks of the CCP’s nationalist global posturing. For too long, Western and non-Chinese analysts were convinced that China’s rise would be accompanied by political transparency and deeper integration with the global system leading to a move away from its unilateral revisionist tendencies. However, under Xi Jinping, now effectively president for life, the CCP has promoted an overtly aggressive and unambiguously expansionist approach. Under Xi, China has employed its economic might via the Belt and Road…

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Third Party Data Breach of GE Vendor Exposes Highly Sensitive Employee Information – CPO Magazine

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Third Party Data Breach of GE Vendor Exposes Highly Sensitive Employee Information  CPO Magazine
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Palo Alto Networks employee data breach highlights risks posed by third party vendors

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The personal details of some past and present Palo Alto Networks employees – their names, dates of birth and social security numbers – have been exposed online. But is it really the company’s fault?

Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.

Graham Cluley