Smart assistants in IT security - an approach to addressing the challenge by leveraging assistants' specific features

Smart assistants, also known as ubiquitous personal assistants, intelligent assistants or digital personal assistants, have already entered the private sphere and are at the brink of real productive application in the business sphere as well. While those developments can make life easier for end users and increase productivity of businesses, they, at the same time, lead to concerns from the perspective of IT security and privacy. This article presents an approach to address these challenges - not through restricting these assistants but through leveraging their specific features.