As more businesses embrace digital transformation, they’re helping reshape the cybersecurity landscape. This in turn increases the importance of comprehensive cybersecurity in their business models and processes, according to new research from Gartner.
Christian Byrnes, managing VP at Gartner, says that businesses have reached an inflection point in business and technological innovation. The digital explosion is moving technologies from core architectures to a highly distributed and fit-for-purpose edge.
“The race to the edge has pushed the environment for protecting data and infrastructure into the physical world, merging functions focused on data and information with functions that make actual changes to people and their surrounding environments,” says Byrnes.
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“Protecting information alone isn’t enough, and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of that information isn’t enough,” he says. “Leaders in cybersecurity must now assume responsibility for providing safety for both people and their environments.”
A key aspect of the cybersecurity scenario is openness. Organizations must decide how transparent to make their services to customers. This depends on their approach to data accessibility, the infrastructure in place, their corporate culture, their processes, and their adaptation to change.
Gartner believes that demands for transparency in the digital business climate of 2020 will drive more organizations toward openness as a strategy of priorities. Requirements for large-scale, real-time adaptive protection, safety and privacy at digital and physical levels will drive new cybersecurity skills, practices and technologies.
“Cybersecurity professionals are the new guardians of major change within the organization,” says Byrnes. “Such professionals are now so integrated with digital business decisions that leaders cannot tell where business ends and cybersecurity begins. The digital explosion and the race to the edge have achieved what previous waves of technology evolution have failed to do - to integrate cybersecurity professionals and business leaders into effective teams.”
This article was first published in Telecom Asia e-Brief: Digital Transformation
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