Chapter 10

The Future of Security

Objectives

• Understand how the processes of security can be applied as a predictive strategy for security planning.

• Understand that futures studies seek to determine the likelihood of future events and trends for the protection of assets.

• Be aware that a range of alternative futures are achievable according to the current trajectory of the concepts, principles, and theories as portrayed by trends and predictions.

• Realize that wild-card predictions for the future are a low probability and potentially high-impact risk that have the capacity to change the direction of a well-established and stable trend.

• Be aware that future technology will see the greater use of mobile devices and telecommunications for ...

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