{"id":11265,"date":"2018-01-26T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/26\/news-5036\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:30:13","slug":"news-5036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/26\/news-5036\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Talk: What&#039;s trending for 2018?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2017\/07\/hottest-and-coldest-outsourcing-trends-100729178-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:30:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to tech trends we&#8217;re likely to see in 2018, nothing would likely be more welcome than the end of passwords. With companies looking for ever better ways to protect data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3244004\/security\/top-25-worst-most-insecure-passwords-used-in-2017.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it seems clear that &#8220;password123&#8221; has no indefinite future<\/a>. (Nor does you pet&#8217;s name, if <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> what you use.)<\/p>\n<p>But just how quickly passwords will be shunted aside, and by what technology \u2013 biometrics? two-factor authentication? algorithms? \u2013 remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>That was topic No. 1 for our panel of tech experts \u2013\u00a0<em>CSO<\/em>&#8216;s Michael Nadeau, <em>Infoworld<\/em>&#8216;s Serdar Syegulalp,\u00a0<em>Computerworld<\/em>\u00a0Executive Editor Ken Mingis and\u00a0\u00a0<em>Macworld<\/em>&#8216;s Michael Simon \u2013 as they peer into the near-future to discern what&#8217;s coming in 2018 and what&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Coming: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3193393\/cloud-computing\/why-everyones-so-excited-about-serverless-computing.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serverless computing<\/a>, something that should please developers; more efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3250274\/data-storage\/blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-may-soon-underpin-cloud-storage.html\">roll out blockchain in a variety of industries<\/a>; and \u2013 at last \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1030983\/home-tech\/homepod.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple&#8217;s HomePod high-fidelity speaker<\/a> that may or may not be smart. (Simon&#8217;s buying one anyway; so is Mingis \u2013 natch.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>[ To view our previous episode, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3238927\/security\/tech-talk-uber-hack-google-tracks-aws-packs-in-china-and-firefox-is-back.html\">Tech Talk: Uber hack, Google tracks, AWS packs (in China) &#8230; and Firefox is back<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want skip around among the topics we cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3251168\/security\/tech-talk-whats-trending-for-2018.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2017\/07\/hottest-and-coldest-outsourcing-trends-100729178-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:30:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>When it comes to tech trends we&#8217;re likely to see in 2018, nothing would likely be more welcome than the end of passwords. With companies looking for ever better ways to protect data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3244004\/security\/top-25-worst-most-insecure-passwords-used-in-2017.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it seems clear that &#8220;password123&#8221; has no indefinite future<\/a>. (Nor does you pet&#8217;s name, if <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> what you use.)<\/p>\n<p>But just how quickly passwords will be shunted aside, and by what technology \u2013 biometrics? two-factor authentication? algorithms? \u2013 remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>That was topic No. 1 for our panel of tech experts \u2013\u00a0<em>CSO<\/em>&#8216;s Michael Nadeau, <em>Infoworld<\/em>&#8216;s Serdar Syegulalp,\u00a0<em>Computerworld<\/em>\u00a0Executive Editor Ken Mingis and\u00a0\u00a0<em>Macworld<\/em>&#8216;s Michael Simon \u2013 as they peer into the near-future to discern what&#8217;s coming in 2018 and what&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3251168\/security\/tech-talk-whats-trending-for-2018.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[11070,11082,714,14247],"class_list":["post-11265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-emerging-technology","tag-personal-technology","tag-security","tag-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}