Opportunities and security threats posed by new technologies

The technological evolution is introducing in a fast pace new technologies in our everyday lives. As always, these new technologies can be applied for good causes and thereby give us the opportunity to do many interesting new things. Think for example about drones transporting blood samples between hospitals. However, like always, new technologies can also be applied for bad causes. Think for example about the same drones, but this time transporting bomb parcels instead of blood. In this paper, we will focus on a number of novel technologies and discuss how security actors are currently doing their best to maximize the “good” use of these tools, while minimizing the “bad” use. We will focus on research actions taken by Belgian Royal Military Academy in the domains of: Augmented reality, and showcase how this technology can be used to improve surveillance operations. Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones), and showcase how the potential security threats posed by these systems can be mitigated by novel drone detection systems. Unmanned Maritime Systems, and showcase how this technology can be used to increase the safety at sea. Unmanned Ground Systems, and more specifically the autonomous cars, showcasing how to prevent potential cyber-attacks on these future transportation tools.