Security

[New] The second wave of locusts, FAO warns, could endanger the food security of approximately 25 million people in East Africa.
[New] France passed an act to preserve its interests in defense and national security in 2019, aiming to build a full 5G network by 2030.
[New] The Federal Aviation Administration is monitoring the security risks posed by drones as their use continues to proliferate, with the agency expecting $9 billion in drone sales by 2024.
[New] Social Security, the program that provides retirement and disability benefits to millions of Americans every year, has a projected shortfall equal to 3.21% of taxable payroll over the next 75 years.
[New] Costs for Social Security have risen substantially over the past decade and are expected to keep increasing largely due to a drop in birth rates and a rise in the number of Americans retiring.
[New] In dynamic cloud environments, very little is locked down-privileged users can make changes to the cloud infrastructure in production, and even legitimate changes can cause a drift from the intended compliance and security posture and introduce risks.
A US failure to strike the right balance for its export control policy would result in it being ineffective at addressing national security risks, costly for the economy, and problematic for trade and diplomatic relations.
Harm might come to the market positions of German automakers in China if Berlin acted on security concerns to exclude the Chinese company Huawei from its 5G telecommunications networks.
The global Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Cyber Security market size is expected to gain market growth in the forecast period of 2020 to 2025, with a CAGR of 25.2% in the forecast period of 2020 to 2025 and will expected to reach USD 22730 million by 2025, from USD 9258.7 million in 2019.
Organizations can save more than $3 million over three years by switching from a legacy database security solution to Imperva Data Security, due to reduced risk and lowered cost of compliance audits.
The total biometric device market is expected to reach US$ 28.2 billion in 2020, with the government and security market taking a significant hit of US$ 1.1 billion.
A loophole in the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act could send taxpayer funds to foreign workers in countries like China and Mexico.
There will be a minimum in federal assistance coming to Hawaii from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, including $1.25 billion to help fund state and county government response efforts, and $1.14 billion in estimated unemployment assistance.
Complicating matters for US retirees, 2020 was to be the first year since 1982 that Social Security paid out more than it takes in, beginning a trend that is expected to continue into the next century.
Unregulated meat markets and industrial animal farming create unhealthy unnatural environments that pose a security risk for all.
US travel agencies will be able to apply for new loan programs and self-employed agents will be eligible for unemployment benefits under the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act agreed upon by congressional leadership and the Trump administration.
Under the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or Cares Act, passed last month, the Treasury will eventually send out 150 million stimulus payments to eligible Americans.
A key consideration for financial services firms in 2020 is how they can effectively demonstrate resilience given potential changes to business models, increasing complex digitisation, cyber security threats and reliance on third parties including the continued move to concentrated cloud providers.
Internet of things (IoT) security market is set to witness a healthy CAGR of 34.10% in the forecast period of 2019 to 2026.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act provided more than $13 billion in funds earmarked for school districts, and they could receive additional CARES money via governors.
With most threats and opportunities of the 21st century being essentially transboundary and empowered citizens fast marginalising, if not replacing, four centuries old nation-state system guiding human destinies, national welfare is fast redefining and overtaking national security as a top priority.
Clearview AI can be an indispensable tool to reinforce national security, but there are many risks associated with the use of facial recognition technology that the EU might be better equipped to deal with than the US.
President Trump threatened to veto the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act if it should include any money for the USPS.

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Last updated: 26 May 2020