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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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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. Things are changing. Need to know basis.

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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. Cornell is the chief technology officer at the application security firm Denim Group. It’s a logical transition. Oil and water.

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MY TAKE: Coping with security risks, compliance issues spun up by ‘digital transformation’

The Last Watchdog

Companies are being compelled to embrace digital transformation, or DX , if for no other reason than the fear of being left behind as competitors leverage microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure to spin-up software innovation at high velocity. “The A core security challenge confronts just about every company today.

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Making the Case for Encryption in the Era of Digital Transformation – Highlights from our Annual Data Threat Report

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now in its sixth year, the report is squarely focused on digital transformation and what that means for organizations and their data security. When it comes to digital transformation, organizations are rushing to meet the demand, by leadership or customers, to deploy transformative technologies as a competitive edge.