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Two years ago, digital transformations had kicked into high gear, with new processes and product development moving ahead at breakneck speed.
As IT and business fast-tracked initiatives like agile and DevOps to improve speed to market, security considerations were often left in the dust.
At the time, Gartner predicted that 60 per cent of digital businesses would suffer major service failures by 2020 due to the inability of security teams to manage digital risk.
High-profile security lapses ensued as expected, although it’s hard to pinpoint that digital projects were the leading cause. “Regardless of whether highly publicised breaches were directly linked to digital transformation, they got business leaders thinking again about risk and solutions that minimise risk,” says Pete Lindstrom, vice president of security research at IDC.
Today, some 62 per cent of global executives rank cyber attacks and threats as one of their organisation’s highest risk management priorities…
