“Cybersecurity makes it possible to take smart risks in the service of exploring great opportunities. ”

If cybersecurity is too restrictive or generalised it can stifle the creation of new digital value. Today’s IT leaders are trying to choose between prioritising innovation to protect market position and the need to lockdown systems and mitigate risk. With the tools available in most enterprises, these may seem to be the only options. Modern security infrastructures, however, can allow for massive innovations and security at the same time. With the right timing and investments, world-changing innovation is possible.

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About the authors and contributors

MJ Petroni & Jessica Long

As California-based Cyborg Anthropologists working closely with the NTT Group, the world’s largest telecom, Jessica and MJ focus on the changes our world will experience in the next hundred years through the lens of the relationship between humans and technology. As key business leaders visit NTT’s Innovation Institute, the team has in-depth conversations with them about the possibilities—and ethics—of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (and its coming successor, the Social Network of Things), big and little data, nanotechnology and robotics in domains such as financial services, government, healthcare, education, and automobility. MJ is the owner and founder of Causeit, Inc.—part futurist think tank and part innovation consultancy. He also serves as a founding advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Digital Financial Services Platform for poverty alleviation. MJ and Jessica have presented on many global stages, for example, RSA (the world’s largest cybersecurity conference) and SIBOS (SWIFT’s global financial event). His team also co-produced TEDxBellevue and are currently authoring the living book, Cybiomes: Biology, Technology and Hope.

Additional Credits

Matthew Gyde: Group Executive, Security Solutions
Neil Campbell: Group General Manager, Security Solutions
Kenneth Mead: Digital Storyteller
Natasha Horwitz: Senior Marketing Manager