Splunk Predictions 2020

2020 and Beyond: Emerging Possibilities, Emerging Threats

Algorithms may decide who gets a job interview. Automation could kill your org culture, or it can unlock human creativity. Security strategies that can spot last year’s “imprtnant e-mail” from your CEO are not ready for next year’s deepfake phone call.

These are just a few of the issues that will drive technology conversations in 2020, and every one of them revolves around data.

Organizations and individual consumers are facing a new wave of technologies that will generate, and allow us to manipulate, untold new quantities of data. This year, leaders and technologists at Splunk pooled their insights to discuss how this avalanche of data will manifest, and how alert organizations can stay one step ahead.

This report explores three areas: IT operations, IT security, and emerging technologies. We look at the near-term synergy of IoT and 5G technologies, and the long-term impact of ignoring user experience. And because leading companies will drive every decision with hard data, we look at the cost of leaving so much of your data in the dark.

From AI advances to automation strategies to the new default security framework, organizations that show foresight in 2020 will be best positioned to turn challenge into opportunity.

Here’s what’s coming…