Securing Digital Transformation

How to win the battle to secure the digital world.

Security teams often have been perceived as barriers to the business’s seamless adoption of new digital technologies because keeping the business secure trumps the benefits of technologies that foster employee productivity.

A true digital transformation programme must entail a proactive approach to information security, which strengthening the corporate risk posture and protecting customers. However, securing digital technologies poses a myriad of challenges.

“While it is difficult to quantify one barrier to success over another, security is certainly one of the biggest barriers to a “successful” digital transformation (DX). Because DX involves working with multiple digital technologies, some of which organisations have never worked with previously, DX efforts without comprehensive security integrated into the project will be a major liability,” says Patrick Grillo, senior director of solutions marketing at Fortinet.

Sebastien Pavie, regional director of enterprise and cybersecurity at Gemalto, agrees security is often seen as a key barrier to digital transformation, and a chief concern for most organisations. “Digital transformation, especially in cloud and mobility, is a fast-growing reality in the business world. Beyond going paperless, which was one of the major drivers initially, digitalisation is about the wave of new generation applications and services leveraging exponential amount of data at your fingertips. However, there are several barriers to digital transformations that prevent organisations from taking a full leap.”