Businesses would therefore be wise to harness the potential benefits offered by Google Glass, but they should also be wary, because if one pattern has repeated itself when it comes to new technology, it’s that it isn’t long before hackers and cyber criminals target it as a means of gaining access to an organisation’s IT infrastructure. The message is therefore clear, Google Glass represents the next major threat to enterprise security, with the ability of the wearable device to record video – be the user aware it’s recording or not – capable of being used for cyber espionage and data theft.