Mobility and security, the great challenges of digital companies

Markets are moving towards a new “open economy” whose foundations and impulses are increased freelance work and mobility in companies, the impact of artificial intelligence advancement, the integration of startups into the organizational structure of large corporations or upward trends as BYOD. Basically we are talking about mobility, and everything that implies and will involve for companies and workers, including a necessary and essential increase of security.

Towards the “Open Economy”

The move towards this new state of “open economy” is unstoppable; its origins goes back years ago, but it will be in 2020 when its foundations are laid, as reflected the report “The Open Economy”, made by The Future Laboratory for Samsung.

“Many European companies have already begun making radical changes to their businesses by adopting new intelligent technologies that drive the core of their business, integrating new types of workers and devices, finding new ways to quickly manage changing human resources… But many other are struggling to find new access roads to the Open Economy, and need help to take their first steps.” 

Increased integration of technology, increase of freelance workers and transformation of work processes, all together will increase the need for more and better security measures, especially when reports show that, year after year, cybercrime increases, as does the cost it causes in the overall economy of the planet.

The advances in artificial intelligence and automatic learning will be decisive in the consolidation of the open economy. The greater investment of companies in this technology (9.2 billion dollars by 2019) will in turn force companies to invest more in security, as new scenarios and degrees of risk will be opened. At the same time, repetitive process automation will free up employee talent and thereby drive mobile office expansion, freelance worker growth, independence and flexibility, coupled with strengthened core trends, as is BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).

“Finding ways to safely train new generations of freelance workers is going to be the number one business challenge. Within three years, companies are expected to have to deal with more than 7.3 billion connected devices, while labor will evolve to give rise to a new way of how, where and when companies operate,” says Nick Dawson, global director of strategy for Samsung Knox.

But the impact will go further, because under these circumstances, those responsible for recruiting staff will look for candidates with more human and less technical skills, such as intuition or judgment.

In the context of an “open economy”, the new offices will be characterized by their openness and a dispersed workforce, which will work remotely, from anywhere and at any time, through their own mobile devices and collaboratively, with high and essential security measures.