DE-RISKING DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
Every business and organisation, whether small or large,
is likely going through a Digital Transformation process.
But this move to digitilisation does not come risk-free.
Ilijana Vavan, Managing Director for Europe at Kaspersky
Lab, outlines some of the key factors CISOs should be
considering when implementing Digital Transformation
strategies to ensure their organisation is protected.
F
rom small
businesses
to global
conglomerates,
Digital
Transformation
is taking
place across all sectors and sizes
of organisations. It is one of the key
decisions that business decision-
makers find themselves faced with.
Studies have found that 96% of
companies consider it important or
critical to their development, while the
MIT Centre for Business discovered
that Digital Transformation can have an
enormously positive effect, with 26%
of businesses investing in innovation
being more profitable than their average
industry competitors.
But in a bid to embrace and elevate
IT systems and services, security
84
considerations are at risk of being
downgraded. For example, despite a
huge media and regulatory focus on
the security of personal information and
company-held data, the security of data
travelling across and stored in the cloud
can be an afterthought. But with Digital
Transformation projects often relying on
the use of cloud-enabled infrastructure
and services, the risks of not securing
data often outweigh the rewards.
In fact, cloud-related IT security
incidents are not uncommon and are
among the costliest for businesses
to recover from. Kaspersky Lab
research shows that incidents
affecting IT infrastructure hosted by
a third-party cost £1.2 million for
enterprises and £90,000 for SMBs.
Instead of benefiting companies,
Digital Transformation strategies could
in fact be leaving them exposed and
Ilijana Vavan, Managing Director for Europe
at Kaspersky Lab
In a bid to embrace
and elevate IT
systems and
services, security
considerations are
at risk of being
downgraded.
vulnerable. According to Forrester,
one-in-three (31%) IT decision-makers
are already worried about the security
aspects of Digital Transformation.
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