Meta-Predictions

   Well, it's a new year and we all know what that means... every security publication, and plenty of non-security publications, come out with their annual security predictions.

   I predict that this year's predictions will be as boring and vanilla as last year's.  And we don't even have to wait until the end of the year to see if I'm right!

   So, rather than adding to the noise, I'll save you some clicks.  Everybody's saying the same things... cybercrime, blockchain, cryptocurrency, breaches, yada yada.

   But some people went above and beyond to make the prediction reading experience special!  Here are my favorites:

   Best presentation.  Kudos on the production value of this prediction post by Watchguard.  Between the nice graphics and videos, I was engaged.  They didn't say anything new... but the way they said it makes it worth a look.
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-resource-center/2018-security-predictions

   Best use of AI.  This is a great idea... how about machine-generated predictions!  Great fun.  And I, for one, welcome our AI overlords.  Even the text that doesn't make sense makes more sense than some other predictions!  Well done Kelly and Medium.
https://medium.com/@kshortridge/2018-cyber-security-predictions-d493e25162e7

   Best prediction of the death of passwords.  Well, really they said that password-only authentication will decrease faster.  OK, either way, we've been down this road many times before and, unfortunately, passwords ain't goin' nowhere.  We're stuck with them.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3242866/security/our-top-7-cyber-security-predictions-for-2018.html

   Remembering what we said in 2017 award.  This post doesn't say anything particularly interesting, but I like that they go back and grade their 2017 predictions.  Of course, those predictions were pretty bland but they only gave themselves a generous 9.5 out of 10.  http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/2018-cyber-security-predictions/

   tl;dr award.  I seriously did not even read this one.  Really Forbes?  60 predictions?  I guess all the ad networks you hit us with aren't enough?  I guess quantity wins.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2017/11/26/60-cybersecurity-predictions-for-2018/

   What are your favorite predictions?

   Here's to a great 2018!