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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.

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Companies need CASBs now more than ever — to help secure ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

While Shadow IT has been largely quelled, the core dynamic that started all this fuss – eager humans scrambling to use the latest, greatest cloud-enabled services – remains a major security issue, one that now connects directly to digital transformation. A synopsis of key takeaways: Misconfigurations.

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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. Along the way, of course, cybersecurity must get addressed. Two different cryptographic keys – a public key and a private key – get issued.

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FIRESIDE CHAT: U.S. banking regulators call out APIs as embodying an attack surface full of risk

The Last Watchdog

APIs have been a linchpin as far as accelerating digital transformation — but they’ve also exponentially expanded the attack surface of modern business networks. We discussed, in some detail, just how far the new rules go in requiring best practices for accessing and authenticating APIs.

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Safeguarding the company’s risk profile after a hasty digital transformation

SC Magazine

Now that we are a full year into the new world order and the pandemic has eased up a bit, companies are taking a deep breath and starting to consider how the past 14 months fundamentally reshaped their digital transformation plans. Ben Smith, field chief technology officer, RSA.

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NEW TECH: Devolutions’ ‘PAM’ solution helps SMBs deal with rising authentication risks

The Last Watchdog

Related : SMBs are ill-equipped to deal with cyber threats Without a cohesive cybersecurity framework, SMBs are falling further behind as digital transformation, or DX, ramps up. Embracing digital transformation becomes even more of a challenge without a dedicated platform to address vulnerabilities. That’s our goal.”

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NEW TECH: Silverfort helps companies carry out smarter human and machine authentications

The Last Watchdog

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet.