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Cybersecurity is Central to Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

Digital transformation advances all business areas, fundamentally optimizing business processes and delivering value to customers. Spending on digital transformation is expected to reach $1.8 Spending on digital transformation is expected to reach $1.8 trillion in 2022. trillion in 2022.

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SHARING INTEL: Why full ‘digital transformation’ requires locking down ‘machine identities’

The Last Watchdog

This is so in spite of the fact that machine identities are exploding in numbers and have come to saturate digital transformation. It’s typical for an enterprise to rely on tens of thousands of digital certificates, with the number growing daily, thanks to digital transformation.

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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. Related article: 7 hacks signaling a coming global cyber war. If you haven’t heard, we are undergoing “digital transformation.” Digital advances are coming at us fast and furious.

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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. You need look no further that the jarring SolarWinds hack for a prime example.

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What companies need to know about ‘SecOps’ — the path to making ‘digital transformation’ secure

The Last Watchdog

Related: How DevOps played into the Uber hack. With the digital transformation really just beginning, in cloud computing and IoT, it makes sense to bring security into the DevOps conversation. But for all the upside, there is a downside to the digital transformation. It’s a logical transition. Roadmap needed.

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Cactus ransomware gang claims the Schneider Electric hack

Security Affairs

Schneider Electric is a multinational company that specializes in energy management, industrial automation, and digital transformation. In early January, the Cactus ransomware group claimed to have hacked Coop, one of the largest retail and grocery providers in Sweden.