The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Video, Safety, and Security
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:45:15 -0000
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SIA recently unveiled its 2024 Security Megatrend report in which AI prominently claims the top position, dominating all four top spots. With AI making waves across global industries, there arises a set of concerns that demand thoughtful consideration. The key megatrends highlighted are as follows:
- AI: Security of AI
- AI: Visual Intelligence (Distinct from Video Surveillance)
- AI: Generative AI
- AI: Regulations of AI
This discussion will specifically delve into the first two trends—AI Security and Visual Intelligence.
Security of AI
The top spot on the list is occupied by the security of AI. Ironically, the most effective security for AI is AI itself. AI is tasked with monitoring behaviors related to data creation and access, identifying anomalies indicative of potential malicious activities. As businesses increasingly adopt AI, the value of data rises significantly for the organization. However, with AI becoming a more integral operational component, a cyber incident could disrupt not only data but also overall operations and production, particularly when there's a lack of metadata for decision-making.
Ensuring robust cyber protection for data becomes crucial, and solutions like the Ransomware Defender in Dell Technologies' unstructured data offering play a key role. Cyber recovery strategies are also imperative to swiftly resume normal operations. An air-gapped cyber recovery vault is essential, minimizing disruptions and securing a clean and complete dataset for rapid recovery from incidents.
AI visual intelligence
AI Visual Intelligence has been increasingly used across various industries for a multitude of purposes, including object recognition and classification, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, customer insights and experience enhancement, autonomous systems, healthcare diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and surveillance and security. By integrating AI Visual Intelligence into their operations, businesses can harness the power of visual data to improve decision-making, automate processes, enhance efficiencies, and unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.
Video extends beyond security to impact business operations, enhancing efficiencies as the metadata collected from cameras serves business use cases beyond security functions. An example is the collection of this metadata, such as image metadata, timestamps, objects metadate, geo location, and more. The collection of this metadata necessitates a robust storage solution to preserve complete datasets readily available for models to achieve desired outcomes. This data is considered a mission-critical workload, demanding optimal uptime for storage solutions.
Adopting an N+X node-based storage architecture on-premises guarantees that data is consistently written and available, providing 99.9999% (6 nines) availability in an on-prem cloud environment. Dell Unstructured Data Solutions align perfectly with this workload, ensuring uninterrupted business operations compared to server-based storage solutions facing challenges during deployment or encountering issues with public cloud connectivity. The potential cost-prohibitive nature of public cloud storage for the data required in regular AI modeling may lead to a continued trend of cloud repatriation to on-premises.
Security practitioners evaluating the need for cameras must now strategically map out potential stakeholders within organizations to determine camera requirements aligned with their business outcomes. This strategic approach is anticipated to drive a higher demand for cameras and associated services.
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Authors: Mordi Shushan, Brian Stonge