Like everything else in technology, the software developer world will be revolutionized in 2023 by artificial intelligence. The technology landscape is very interesting, with 2024 promising changes for developers worldwide.
Another unfortunate feature of 2023 is its reputation for human error and costly security breaches. Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Report found that human error plays a significant role in 74% of all breaches.
Errors such as abuse of privileges, accidental data disclosure, and social engineering attacks occur due to various human factors and the consequences of compromising secrets, lamented Eva Kontsevaya, CEO and founder of Teleport and developer of the Teleport open structure access platform.
The prevalence of these issues has prompted organizations to implement hardware biometrics and identity verification. But instead of focusing just on stealing passwords, attackers are now actively looking for more passwords in an organization’s infrastructure, including browser cookies, private keys, API keys, and session tokens, he said.
“To keep up with the speed of threats, organizations will realize they need to fully transition to privacy authentication by 2024 to protect a wide range of sensitive areas that are still vulnerable to threats,” Kontsevoy told TechNewsWorld.
He predicts that the widespread adoption of encrypted logins next year will create immunity against human error and significantly disrupt the work of dangerous actors.
Forecasting Changes in Development and IT Security
Kontsevoy does not try to explain the changing events that software developers must implement. Major changes will be associated with a historic shift in how companies approach network security. The IT-focused strategy of dedicated security teams will disappear.
“We will see the role of security teams shift to that of consultants and auditors, and engineering teams will be responsible for selecting vendors and implementing security systems,” he added. “Cybersecurity teams will be accountable for policy and ensuring workflows and systems comply with security requirements.”
He said that we’re in the midst of a massive data revolution driven by OpenAI, and artificial intelligence tools will continue to expand the integration of other developers.
These will include inventions in DevOps, data mining, and project management. The importance of the main network will be very high, forcing developers to concentrate.
“Developers are moving from their local workspace to the cloud. Those who leap will be ahead of the curve,” he told TechNewsWorld.
Diminishing Role of Legacy Platforms
Digibee executives see three major changes for developers this year:
- Low code will become more popular as artificial intelligence continues to develop.
- Integration will strengthen a good organizational structure.
- Legacy systems will become obsolete.
There are parallels between use cases and artificial intelligence and low code adoption. According to Digibee CTO Peter Kreslins. AI helps organizations and individuals analyze, interpret, and manage large amounts of data, create predictive text, find answers to requests. And read medical images such as X-rays.
AI is advancing rapidly across all use cases. Additionally, low code removes much of the burden of writing actual code.
High-level direction rendering takes very little time, which subcode systems translate into code – similar to how AI generation methods like ChatGPT and Dalle-E save time to generate text or images based on direction.
As organizations look to expand software development into citizen development to increase productivity and flexibility, and open source development to focus more on system design and architecture rather than coding, low code facilitates these types of efforts. So we expect low code usage to increase in 2024, too.”
Emerging IT Integration Practices
By 2024, legacy systems will become less viable. They can be easily replaced with existing ones that work.
“This is a reasonable explanation but perhaps too lenient. The reality is that legacy software is a huge barrier to innovation and change,” Kreslins said.
The ability of modern integration platforms to integrate legacy systems with current processes allows organizations to continue using legacy systems that work well as part of a modern IT stack if they so choose.
“Legacy systems become obsolete but are expensive to replace in industries like financial services, so integrating them increases their use and supports innovation and change.”
Full Speed Ahead for AIOps
Artificial intelligence in IT operations, or AIOps, will play a key role in developments this year. According to Shahid Ahmed, the group’s executive vice president of new business and innovation, AI adoption is growing exponentially. While AI and automation technologies are still in the long run, humans will be an important part of the AI story.
“Organizations must look beyond next year to ensure they can afford the new technologies of the future and strive to achieve sustainable goals.
Given the speed at which AIOps is evolving, the idea of a fully automated Network Operations Center (NOC) is quickly becoming relevant. Ahmed predicts that over the next 12 months. Network companies will incorporate AIOps into their broader operations to improve network quality, engineering support, and infrastructure upgrades.
He expects this grim NOC concept to enter the lexicon of the online world this year. While automation is at the core, human talent will be the key to success.
“Network providers will need to focus on scaling up and ensuring they have the necessary preparation from a technology perspective. From standardizing APIs to optimizing data processes.”
Devs Embrace Hands-On Security Innovations
Attackers will continue to attack the software supply chain, realizing the cost-effectiveness of compromising one high-value target with many downstream customers, predicts Chris Hughes, principal security consultant at Endor Labs and innovation partner at CISA.
Attackers still believe attacking a software vendor’s proprietary interface or a widely used open source (OSS) library is more effective than targeting specific organizations.
“In 2024, we will continue to see an increase in software supply chain attacks as attackers seek to exploit the complex and overlooked software supply chain attack surface in most of their large business environments.”
This fact will continue to drive the development of topics such as Secure-by-Design products and software responsibility. Hughes noted that platform providers will continue to try to drive systemic change by making safe changes to platforms that many can help.
“Software responsibility will continue to be a hotly debated topic. While many fear it will stifle innovation. Others say it is high time to hold software vendors accountable for the products they distribute. Clients and consumers,”.
Cases such as MOVEit Software infringement and class action lawsuits are examples of what can happen to software providers and the rise in false claims.
Meta Maybe Makes Coders More Proficient
In 2023, Meta announced its Purple Llama tool, which empowers developers, improves security and creates an open ecosystem.
Purple Llama is an umbrella project of open trust, security, and assessment tools designed to level the playing field for developers and enable them to bring AI models into production and experience responsibly in accordance with best practices.
Organizations will focus on using cybersecurity best practices to protect models and invest in protecting AI systems at all stages of the AI lifecycle to avoid unwanted behavior or potential algorithm breaches. Nicole Carignan, vice president of Internet strategy, said. AI Darktrace,
She added that the best way to ensure AI safety is diverse and requires the active collaboration of international experts and diverse perspectives.
“We expect international collaboration and public and private sector participation will be critical to achieving secure AI worldwide,” Carignan said.
While the project is based on Meta’s proposal. Anything that can help manage the future of the Wild West is good for the ecosystem,. Added Gareth Lindahl-Wise, a chief information security officer at managed detection and response (MDR) provider Ontinue.
“We are likely to see similar offerings from the consumer- and enterprise-facing providers, and we have already taken the first steps in a new area of caution.
Teaming Up To Meet Regulatory Pressure
Software developers may need cybersecurity more directly than their IT counterparts. According to Teleport’s Kontseva, their industry will face even more pressure from regulators.
“Much of the world is now controlled or controlled by software. As a result. World-renowned privacy experts like Bruce Schneier advocate for more guidelines, even going so far as to say we need to start regulating software the same way we do. Aerospace industry,” he said.
While there is no silver bullet—and monitoring all software in this way is not recommended—there are undoubtedly critical software systems that match the aircraft’s potential for damage that may require such a process. Kontsevoy added.
There’s no chance that Gartner predicts that 45% of CISOs will expand their responsibilities beyond cybersecurity due to growing control pressures and an expanding attack surface.
