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SHARING INTEL: Why full ‘digital transformation’ requires locking down ‘machine identities’

The Last Watchdog

This is so in spite of the fact that machine identities are exploding in numbers and have come to saturate digital transformation. A machine, in this context, refers to any piece of hardware or software that can accept and execute instructions. By comparison, scant effort has gone into securing the latter.

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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

If you haven’t heard, we are undergoing “digital transformation.” Digital advances are coming at us fast and furious. Misuse and manipulation of machine identities almost certainly is coming into play in the type of deep breaches digitally-transformed organizations are now experiencing. Security responsibilities.

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Web application exposures continue do bedevil companies as digital transformation accelerates

The Last Watchdog

Companies are scaling up their use of web apps as they strive to integrate digital technology into every aspect of daily business operation. As this ‘digital transformation’ of commerce accelerates, the attack surface available to threat actors likewise is expanding. Related: Cyber spies feast on government shut down.

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NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: Striving for contextual understanding as digital transformation plays out

The Last Watchdog

I think the managed security services industry that’s been leveraging inexpensive human analysts will lose to the new cloud and edge security posture management and response solution providers unless they transform and completely embrace AI. They’re at a disadvantage because they’re not software developers. They’re not AI engineers.

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Asset management in the age of digital transformation

CyberSecurity Insiders

Over the past year or so, organizations have rapidly accelerated their digital transformation by employing technologies like cloud and containers to support the shift to IoT and address the expanding remote workforce. The post Asset management in the age of digital transformation appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever.

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How to make sure your digital transformation is secure

CyberSecurity Insiders

In our increasingly digital world, a greater proportion of businesses across different sectors are trying to integrate new technologies into their processes. Simply put: the more digitally transformed an organisation becomes, the more likely it is to experience a data breach. Cybersecurity Bedrock.