National security cards also have the ability to provide useful information and insight to policymakers on which areas of a given country will most likely be the least secure and which pose potential security threats (Ortmeier, 2009). This will also force nations to into strategic identity management systems and taxonomies of how they classify threats to their populations. The use of analytics and big data or exceptionally large and complex data sets, will become commonplace in five years or less as a result of the adoption of national security cards across more nations in the world (Ortmeier, 2009). National security cards will also be increasingly used for managing healthcare, human services and social programs, as the United Kingdom has successfully done for example. The broader implications to the future of security from the use of national identity cards are evident in how advanced forms of security authentication continue to flourish as well (Ortmeier, 2009). Another aspect of the future of security is biometrics and the accelerating use of authentication technologies entirely based on the innate characteristics of one person relative to another. This area will define homeland security within the next decade including the streamlining of airport screenings and the need for greater security levels in government facilities globally. The use of biometrics is today expensive yet will see a drastic price drop as competing firms enter this market a drive prices and costs down through more efficient supply chains and production methods (Ortmeier, 2009). Biometrics are rapidly progressing from the more fundamental aspects of finger scans to the more advanced areas of retina scans and facial recognition, all driven by the need to make security as seamless and undetected as possible (Ortmeier, 2009)....

Biometrics security will also begin to pervade the passport process more globally than it does today, with the United States being one of the only countries to require retina scans and advanced identification methods of foreign nationals. The implications on the rights of the individual will also become more critical than ever as well (Turri, Maniam, Hynes, 2008).
Conclusion

Bioterrorism and the ability to thwart advanced risks that have the potential to become airborne or food borne can be stopped through the use of these advanced monitoring and security strategies that need to be coordinated at the national level. The future of security will be marked by ubiquity, continual monitoring, pattern matching and analytics, all designed to create a platform or foundation of deterrence and continual operation of governments and enterprise. The future of security will be increasingly dictated by the combined efforts of government agencies and their cross-functional levels of shared goals and objectives, which has been lacking in the past and to an extent today.