NIST official: Immersive technologies have potential to boost software transparency, vulnerability management capabilities

Augmented reality tools could improve software transparency and vulnerability management efforts by implementing spatial computing and visual components, according to a NIST official leading an effort to explore cybersecurity and privacy considerations for immersive technology.

Immersive tech can “enable better mitigations than we have today,” helping cybersecurity professionals in their work by integrating digital information with “real-world images,” NIST computer scientist Michael Fagan told Inside Cybersecurity.

“The ability to just leave digital data within a broader spatial context obviously is...