Into the future, high demands placed on organisations to protect their employees and proprietary knowledge will lead systems designers as well as sales teams to prioritise privacy. Methods will be put in place to circulate data quickly but securely. Strict privacy protection is good for business on many levels but, perversely, can be a barrier to innovation. Additionally, whilst organisations might in the future go a long way to safeguard their trade data, they will also lay greater claim to mobile data transmitted by employees via company-owned devices whilst in ‘on’ or ‘working’ mode.

As we increasingly live online, our digital identities become as important as our offline identities. Will there be a change in the nature of and prevalence of identity theft?