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Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI

Security Boulevard

Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI. Innovation and digital transformation rely on digital resilience to turn business disruption into revenue opportunities. What is Digital Resilience? Digital resilience was a major theme at IDC Directions 2021 in March. Sharon Bell.

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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Speed is what digital transformation is all about. Organizations are increasingly outsourcing IT workloads to cloud service providers and looking to leverage IoT systems. The number of such attacks appears to be relatively low, but they can do substantial damage; at the moment, ransomware extortion often is the end game.

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5 Cyber Trends to Expect in 2024

NetSpi Executives

As we look toward 2024, some aspects will remain the same, such as persistent ransomware and cloud-based attacks, as well as AI creating a larger attack vector for cybercriminals. Teams must keep pace with digital transformation to ensure cloud security.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware?

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Explosion of Machine Identities Creating Cybersecurity ‘Debt’

Security Boulevard

Digital transformation and cloud migration are expanding the attack surface. Over 70% of the organizations surveyed have experienced ransomware attacks in the past year: two each on average. The 2022 attack surface.

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Led by cloud, cyber funding dollars flowed like water in 2020

SC Magazine

The short and long-term factors driving these investments are easy to guess: media coverage of industries and governments getting pummeled by nation state and ransomware hacking groups, new security vulnerabilities from digital transformation initiatives spurred by the coronavirus and longer term shifts to the cloud all play a role.

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The Role Zero Trust Plays in Combating Privileged Credential Attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

Due to the remote work boom and accelerated digital transformation projects, many of those conversations and exchanges are online. It only takes one compromised privileged credential to affect millions – identities, compliance fines potentially, lost intellectual property, lost shareholder value, or ransomware payments.