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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

Companies are being compelled to embrace digital transformation, or DX , if for no other reason than the fear of being left behind as competitors leverage microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure to spin-up software innovation at high velocity. “The A core security challenge confronts just about every company today.

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SHARED INTEL: How attacks on web, mobile apps are being fueled by rising API vulnerabilities

The Last Watchdog

It’s the glue holding digital transformation together. Related: A primer on ‘credential stuffing’ APIs are the conduits for moving data to-and-fro in our digitally transformed world. APIs are literally everywhere in the digital landscape, and more are being created every minute.

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Spotlight: Traceable CSO Richard Bird on Securing the API Economy

The Security Ledger

APIs, today, are everywhere – they’re the foundation of digital transformation initiatives: allowing organizations exchange of data and instructions seamlessly between applications – many hosted in cloud environments. APIs abused in cyber attacks But APIs can also facilitate cyber attacks and the theft of data.

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Inside BNP Paribas’ Digital Banking Innovation: Cloud, Data, AI

Security Boulevard

But today, the rise of online banking, digital applications, and challenger banks has caused significant disruption across financial services. The COVID-19 crisis has put pressure on banks to improve their digital offerings as lockdowns have forced customers to turn to online banking rather than physical, in-store experiences.

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BEST PRACTICES: Rising complexities of provisioning identities has pushed ‘IGA’ to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this. In this digitally transformed environment, maintaining perimeter defenses still has a place.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. One of the most intensive uses of criminal botnets is account takeovers.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security deploys defense against botnets’ assault on business logic

The Last Watchdog

One way to grasp how digital transformation directly impacts the daily operations of any organization – right at this moment — is to examine the company’s application environment. Cequence’s technology detects and repels bot attacks designed to manipulate business logic.