The life of a startup revolves around evolution, requiring a constant ability to pivot to adapt to the ever-changing technology industry landscape. This agility, while necessary for survival, creates opportunities for new risks. and cyber attacks.
Attackers are becoming savvier, using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to bump malicious links and malware to the top of users’ search engine results. Email, SMS, messaging apps, and social media are also commonly used to lure users.
Industry 5.0 can be summarized as calling for redesigning industry around a human centric approach. It's clear that digital technologies will play an important role and trust is crucial for any industrial data flows.
Despite massive data, risk and compliance challenges, today’s work-from-home environment has accelerated our reliance on electronic communication apps like WhatsApp, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and more, ushering in a monumental shift in the way we communicate and conduct business.
Given the proliferation and accessibility of electronic communication tools especially on personally owned mobile devices, and the challenges of being able to reinforce corporate culture on the remote and hybrid workforce, the critical question has become: how do corporate governance models need to adapt?
A zero-trust framework is essential but is not enough. It needs to be part of a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that is a match for increasingly courageous, sophisticated threat actors.
Now, and even more so in the future, your digital identity will define who you are, what is your (digital) possession and what your social graph may look like. Your digital footprint and data will define what you may expect and what you may become.
With the widespread availability of hardware-based Confidential Computing in the public cloud, organizations can now lock down workloads, and implement and enforce cross-border data transfer requirements with a data lock, a type of governance built directly into the data.
2021 was the year of ransomware, with attacks almost doubling in 2020. Cyber insurance providers, reeling from an historic couple of years, are maturing their qualification processes and raising the bar for pay-outs, so businesses can no longer rely on insurance alone as a protection and recovery strategy.
Business leaders around the world are reconfiguring their strategies to prioritize data protection and management. As the world becomes increasingly digitally connected, dependence on cyber safety and consumer trust only becomes more important. Technology continues to develop in complexity, as do our methods to mediate it, but it’s imperative that we don’t forget the human side of risk, too.
