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Cybersecurity is Central to Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

Digital transformation advances all business areas, fundamentally optimizing business processes and delivering value to customers. Spending on digital transformation is expected to reach $1.8 Spending on digital transformation is expected to reach $1.8 trillion in 2022. trillion in 2022.

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

The Last Watchdog

LW: In what noteworthy ways have legacy technologies evolved? Ollmann: Cybersecurity technologies are continuously evolving; they must because both the threat and the business requirements are continuously changing. That said, to date the two biggest changes and influences upon legacy technologies have been public cloud and AI.

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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. It’s typical for an enterprise to rely on tens of thousands of digital certificates, with the number growing daily, thanks to digital transformation.

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Guiding Principles For Your Digital Transformation Strategy

Security Boulevard

Businesses embrace transformative technologies in hopes of enhancing processes needed to survive and thrive in the long term. Collaboration between firms, better customer engagement, simplified operations, and valuable insights are just some of the benefits of implementing new technologies to help businesses prosper.

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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.

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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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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Basic research is the foundational theorizing and testing scientists pursue in order to advance their understanding of a phenomenon in the natural world, and, increasingly, in the digital realm. We need to pick-up some by-products from our cutting-edge technologies, and it should be aligned with our future technologies.”.