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Welcome to the New Year, where we believe most organizations will continue to work through their digital transformation practices. These updated practices heavily impact IT and business leaders who need to expedite their migration to public clouds and in many situations minimize their physical data center footprint.
Concerns around security, privacy, cloud and technology resilience are being further fueled by shifting business priorities, the pandemic-induced remote work environment and accelerated deployment of new technologies, according to a survey from Protiviti and ISACA. Entering into 2021, IT audit groups - particularly those in more digitally mature organizations - are utilizing more dynamic and real-time approaches to technology risk assessment, which enables them to be more agile and responsive to the rapidly evolving risk landscape, driven in no small part by pandemic-related challenges. The findings reveal that 'digital leaders' - those self-characterized as having innovative and disruptive qualities, including a proven track record of delivering on digital and innovation initiatives and effective adoption of emerging technologies - weigh risks differently from companies with lower levels of digital transformation maturity and those who are in the earlier stages of defining and delivering on their digital and innovation agenda.
CodeZero has launched the ZERO BrandCard, a digital identity card of the future, backed by LISNR to enable a secure and contactless digital identity exchange. Looking for a market solution to help combat digital identity spoofing & enable contactless authentication, CodeZero recognized LISNR's ultrasonic technology as the safest and most seamless data transfer and authentication medium.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
A highly focused approach to digital transformation is challenging the traditional top-down, all-or-nothing strategy, according to a report from Plutoshift. The report details a more targeted, incremental approach to digital transformation called operation-specific digital transformation.
The IT department, as always, will be on task to track access grants and any other duties under IGA. Identity fatigue is the enemy of transformation. Digital transformation of identity isn't as simple as swapping identity solution A for identity solution B, or spending more on your existing solution.
Their paper identifies "Digital thought clones," which act as digital twins that constantly collect personal data in real-time, and then predict and analyze the data to manipulate people's decisions. Activity from apps, social media accounts, gadgets, GPS tracking, online and offline behavior and activities, and public records are all used to formulate what they call a "Digital thought clone".
Exterro announced it has acquired AccessData, a provider of digital forensic investigation technology. By combining forces with AccessData, Exterro can now provide companies, government agencies, law enforcement, law firms and legal service providers with the only solution available to address all Legal GRC and digital investigation needs in one integrated platform.
Aerospike announced that it provides its Cloud Managed Service to Experian CrossCore integrated digital identity and fraud risk platform. Experian's CrossCore is an identity and fraud risk platform that consolidates and orchestrates numerous fraud risk signals into a single, holistic assessment to improve operational processes, stay ahead of fraudsters, and protect customers.
The study shows that 84% of global decision makers are accelerating their digital transformation plans, in response to growing demands from users, who want more flexibility to work remotely in the future. During COVID-19, global decision makers cited three main impacts on their enterprise applications strategies.