Security News > 2022 > April > The price of an accelerated digital transformation

F5 announced a report which shows the challenges organizations face as they transform IT infrastructures to deliver and secure digital services that have become inseparable from everyday activities, such as completing job tasks or consulting a doctor.

"Digital transformation efforts have experienced a marked acceleration over the past two years, and we see no indications of a slowdown," said Kara Sprague, EVP and GM, App Delivery, F5. "Our research shows that the average organization manages hundreds of applications across data centers, multiple clouds, and edge deployments-as well as more than 20 different app security and delivery technologies. With these growing and more distributed portfolios, organizations require consistent security, end-to-end visibility, and greater automation in their app deployments to tame debilitating complexity and continuously add value for customers, streamline operations, seize new opportunities, and respond to emerging threats in real time."

The survey identifies site reliability engineering as a key piece of the puzzle, with 77% pursuing SRE approaches for their applications and systems, but enterprise architecture must evolve in parallel to support distributed, application-centric models and further advance organizations' digital transformation efforts.

More than two-thirds of organizations realize that creating superior digital interactions for customers also requires modernizing less visible business processes and back-office functions.

Organizations face a continuous balancing act between controls, costs, customer and employee experiences, and an extended set of application and API protections, resulting in heightened interest in sophisticated behavioral analysis and AI-based solutions that can better assess context to deliver the security, performance, and insights required for adaptive applications.

The survey focused on respondents' priorities, challenges, and expectations to form a compelling perspective of how organizations are evolving application strategies to better serve customers' current and anticipated needs.

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