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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. Without this foundation, the architecture can collapse, allowing attackers to steal digital keys to break into other parts of a business’ network. Cybersecurity Bedrock.

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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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Spotlight Podcast: How DU Telecom Manages Digital Transformation Risk

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight* podcast, Sayed Wajahat Ali the Senior Director of Security Risk Management at DU TELECOM in the UAE joins us to talk about how digital transformation is shaking up the once-staid telecommunications industry and how his company is staying on top of both the risks and opportunities created by digital transformation.

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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. In the past, for example, companies could get away with using a default password, and depend on firewalls and other internal security tools to provide protection. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever.

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Identity Innovators at IDLive 2022: Humana, Toyota, US Bank and Others Reveal How AI, Cloud and Zero Trust Aid Digital Transformation

Security Boulevard

We now expect to have a frictionless experience with companies as they remember our preferences and make it easy to login without re-entering our password every time we need to buy more orange juice or want to order dinner. The way we interact with the companies we buy from has changed dramatically.

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

The Last Watchdog

This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Excising passwords as the security linchpin to digital services is long, long overdue. Password abuse at scale arose shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to make shared secrets the basis for securing digital connections.

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Zero-Trust Frameworks: Securing the Digital Transformation

Threatpost

Zero trust refers to the notion of evaluating the security risk of devices and users within the context of any given moment, without automatically conferring access based on credentials.