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CHAPTER 3
New and emerging threats of cyber crime and terrorism
It will activate the robots without a properly secured configuration as the 
configuration handbook will only discuss robot safety issues and will not 
discuss cyber security issues at length.
 12.
All sectors: The next ICT innovation cycle is the Internet of Things (IOT). 
Almost any device will have an internet address, communicate what it senses, 
and may activate its actuators. Futurists dream about amazing new ICT 
functions and bright technical people implement them. In some cases they 
even inject an RFID chip under their skin to identify themselves as authorized 
users of innovative ICT-based services. Once again, more elaborate thoughts 
about cyber security are not in the designers’ mind set.
CONCLUSIONS
This chapter showed that earlier cyber security lessons identified about threats and 
risk to current and previous ICT innovation cycles do not make their way into the 
next ICT innovation cycle. The old cyber security lessons will be identified again. 
Patches will be used to plug the holes in the “Swiss cheese” design.
People with the bright innovative ideas are not educated in cyber security, nei-
ther are many of the programmers who implement their ideas. They neglect the old 
threats which provide attack paths to cyber criminals.
New and emerging threats can therefore be predicted as long as this innovation 
cycle without proper cyber security is not broken. The only advantage is that cyber-
crime investigators can prepare themselves for the next innovation cycle by becom-
ing an early adopter and preparing the right set of forensic tools.
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