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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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MY TAKE: Businesses gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication — widespread consumer use up next

The Last Watchdog

Perhaps not coincidently, it comes at a time when enterprises have begun adopting passwordless authentication systems in mission-critical parts of their internal operations. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely.

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

The Last Watchdog

These hustlers were unwilling to slog through lugubrious IT onboarding processes in order to get their hands on the latest, greatest software-as-a-service tools. That suggests CASBs may yet have an enduring role to play in securing what our business networks are morphing into, as the result of digital transformation.

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MY TAKE: How the lack of API security translates into ‘digital transformation’ security holes

The Last Watchdog

In fact, API stands for Application Programming Interface, the indispensable technology that makes it possible for software applications to exchange data across the Internet. APIs have been a cornerstone of our digital economy from the start. Think of APIs as the software connectors that permit applications to interact.

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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.

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MY TAKE: PKI, digital certificates now ready to take on the task of securing digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. Nonetheless, it is a pivotal chapter in the evolution of digital commerce. It can be as granular as a microservice in a software container connecting to a mobile app, for instance.

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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. What additional software has been downloaded and now runs on that device ?