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

The Last Watchdog

If you’re not familiar with how Facebook, Twitter and YouTube make it so easy for you and me to easily access cool content they’ve collected and stored behind their respective firewalls, then you might think “API” is a trendy type of beer. Without them, social media and software-as-a-service, as we’ve come to know them, wouldn’t exist.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. CASBs began by closing glaring security gaps created by the rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud tools. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever. This is especially important within the cloud.

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Introducing next-generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks to support 5G-enabled IoT, OT and IT use cases

CyberSecurity Insiders

Digital transformation realized through new 5G-enabled IoT, Operational Technologies (OT) and IT use cases are no exception. Next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks with AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) solutions are designed to help protect enterprises while optimizing security performance for these new use cases.

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Continuous mobile app security protects the business and spurs innovation

SC Magazine

Reed of NowSecure, offers some insights on how continuous mobile app security can protect companies from similar vulnerabilities. Spurred on by a pandemic that forced workers home, we have grown increasingly reliant on a cadre of mobile applications proliferating at a head-spinning rate. microsiervos CreativeCommons Credit: CC BY 2.0.

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GUEST ESSAY – A primer on ‘WAAP’ – an approach to securing APIs at the web app layer

The Last Watchdog

One could make the argument that Application Programming Interfaces — APIs – are a vital cornerstone of digital transformation. APIs interconnect the underlying components of modern digital services in a very flexible, open way. Related: How a dynamic WAF can help protect SMBs. API complexity. Tool limitations.

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. I’m referring to Security Information and Event Management ( SIEM ) systems and to firewalls. This will come to fruition on smarter platforms using automated tools, including advanced firewalls.

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