Blockchain is a powerful tool that can bring positive change in many industries, and we foresee that advancements in encryption technology and cryptography, coupled with blockchain, will be the recipe for success in the security industry in 2018. For instance, the Equifax data hack is something that needed more than just blockchain to have prevented it. While blockchain technology could have really helped customers assert more control over their own personal data owned by the company, bad security practices would have left them vulnerable, with or without blockchain. Where blockchain’s security features will really come into their own will be in their coupling with IoT. With an ever-increasing number of connected devices, 2018 will need blockchain’s security architecture to protect IoT applications and users from sophisticated data breaches. I strongly believe that 2017 was only a trailer for what is to come in 2018 across the entire blockchain ecosystem and sector.
Blockchain ni zana yenye nguvu inayoweza kuleta mabadiliko chanya katika tasnia nyingi, na tunaona kwamba maendeleo katika teknolojia ya usimbaji fiche na usimbaji fiche, pamoja na blockchain, yatakuwa kichocheo cha mafanikio katika sekta ya usalama mwaka wa 2018. Kwa mfano, udukuzi wa data wa Equifax ni kitu ambacho kilihitaji zaidi ya blockchain tu kuizuia. Ingawa teknolojia ya blockchain ingeweza kuwasaidia wateja kudhibiti zaidi data zao za kibinafsi zinazomilikiwa na kampuni, mazoea mabaya ya usalama yangewaacha hatarini, wakiwa na au bila blockchain. Ambapo huduma za usalama za blockchain zitakuja kwao wenyewe zitakuwa katika uunganisho wao na IoT. Kwa idadi inayoongezeka ya vifaa vilivyounganishwa, 2018 itahitaji usanifu wa usalama wa blockchain ili kulinda programu za IoT na watumiaji dhidi ya ukiukaji wa data wa hali ya juu. Ninaamini kabisa kuwa 2017 ilikuwa trela tu ya kile kitakachokuja katika 2018 katika mfumo mzima wa ikolojia wa blockchain na sekta.