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Digital Realty announced it has expanded secure, private access to Google Cloud's global network in five key metros. Direct, low-latency interconnections to Google Cloud are available from 12 locations on Digital Realty's global platform - in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York in North America, and in Düsseldorf, Madrid, Marseille, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, and Zürich as well as two distinct locations in Frankfurt within EMEA. In addition, the Digital Realty Internet Exchange supports Google's Direct Peering capabilities and dedicated access to multiple third-party Internet Exchanges on PlatformDIGITAL, providing a direct path from on-premise networks to Google Cloud services.

Data protection challenges are undermining organizations' abilities to execute digital transformation initiatives globally, according to the Veeam report, which has found that 58% of backups fail, leaving data unprotected. Against the backdrop of COVID-19 and ensuing economic uncertainty, which 40% of CXOs cite as the biggest threat to their organization's DX in the next 12 months, inadequate data protection and the challenges to business continuity posed by the pandemic are hindering organizations' initiatives to transform.

Digital Guardian announced the release of DLP policy packs for top business communications and collaboration applications, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack, and Zoom. The new policy packs can help Digital Guardian customers enable secure communications and collaboration wherever employees are working by monitoring and controlling sensitive data sharing within these solutions.

Already the leader in financial services, the new financing will support Socure's rapid expansion across every consumer-facing vertical including online gaming, healthcare, telco, e-commerce, and on-demand services. "The Socure team accurately predicted the immediate need for identity verification solutions in industries like banking and fintech, and we're excited by the tremendous opportunity as Socure expands to support new industries."

Managing risk arising from remote work has largely been reactive, and risk managers have had to adapt to new digital threats that weren't necessarily as prevalent when work was done from a physical office. Risk managers need to think proactively about how working remotely impacts their organization's exposure to risk and how to mitigate potential breaches.

What digital identities could be, if we put data privacy at their core, is selective. Each time it's needed, your digital identity only reveals what needs to be revealed at that time and keeps the rest of your data safely hidden.

During the past year, digital leaders deployed a remote workforce, engaged customers via contactless delivery and weathered various business disruptions throughout the year. Through investing in digital strategies and expediting transformation efforts, the leaders-defined as those with digital processes and mindsets in place-seized growth opportunities, established new business functions and outlined a future-forward path.

GLEIF has launched a CA Stakeholder Group to facilitate communication between GLEIF, CAs and TSPs from across the world, as they collectively aim to coordinate and encourage a global approach to LEI usage across digital identity products. The collaboration announcement follows news last year that ISO has standardized the process of embedding LEIs in digital certificates.

Data access has become more critical for 53% of survey respondents throughout the pandemic as analytics workloads and demands increase significantly, according to a survey conducted by Enterprise Management Associates. The survey found that half of respondents have data in five or more data storage platforms.

Companies have significantly sped up their digital transformation efforts in the past year, a theme anticipated to persist beyond the pandemic, according to F5. With limited in-person interactions, applications have become synonymous with an organization's presence and ability to thrive. This is especially the case when managing broader application portfolios that span multiple generations of application architectures.