{"id":57248,"date":"2017-05-08T23:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/cybersecurity-pros-will-soon-patrol-computer-networks-like-agents-in-the-matrix"},"modified":"2017-05-08T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:02:29","slug":"cybersecurity-pros-will-soon-patrol-computer-networks-like-agents-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/cybersecurity-pros-will-soon-patrol-computer-networks-like-agents-in-the-matrix","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Pros Will Soon Patrol Computer Networks Like Agents in \u2018The Matrix\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kPJ0dKCGBg8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Security analysts could soon become the first employees asked to show up to work inside virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a new virtual reality tool built by the Colorado-based startup ProtectWise, cybersecurity professionals may soon be patrolling computer networks \u2014 like real world beat cops \u2014 inside a three-dimensional video game world.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Chasin, CEO and co-founder of ProtectWise, sees a future in which companies might even have war-rooms of Oculus Rift-wearing security analysts who patrol their networks in VR. \u201cI see an opportunity in the not-too-distant future in which a large organization who has a lot of IT infrastructure might have rooms full of security analysts with augmented reality and VR headsets on,\u201d he told me.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/08\/cybersecurity-pros-will-soon-patrol-computer-networks-like-agents-in-the-matrix\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e62acc2131-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-e62acc2131-58181461\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/05\/08\/cybersecurity-pros-wil...5;58181461<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security analysts could soon become the first employees asked to show up to work inside virtual reality. Thanks to a new virtual reality tool built by the Colorado-based startup ProtectWise, cybersecurity professionals may soon be patrolling computer networks \u2014 like real world beat cops \u2014 inside a three-dimensional video game world. Scott Chasin, CEO and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,34,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}