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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 2884726 |
| Date de publication | 2021-06-04 05:01:00 (vue: 2021-06-07 11:05:45) |
| Titre | Digital transformation explained |
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This article was written by an independent guest author.
No matter what sector your organization does business in, you’ve probably heard the term digital transformation. In every industry, digital transformation is going to be critical to remain competitive and resilient.
But what does digital transformation mean? And how does cybersecurity fit in? Today’s organizations are facing an increasingly complex environment of securing everything attached to the network; applications, data, and endpoints.
What is digital transformation?
At its most basic definition, digital transformation (or DX) is the process of improving your business by leveraging the latest technologies and solutions.
Digital transformation harnesses third platform technologies - think cloud and data analytics, and acceleration technologies - think IoT and mobile apps to transform business operations.
The primary goals of digital transformation are to increase agility for customer responsiveness, flexibility to accommodate new ways of working, and scalability to help your business do more.
What’s driving digital transformation?
The main drivers of digital transformation are:
Skyrocketing data transmission speeds
Increased storage capacities
Expansion of mobile functionality
All these signs point to a rapid decrease of on-premises computing and storage.
With the cloud, the amount of time and resources spent on hardware maintenance and upkeep is drastically reduced because you no longer need to own, maintain, and upgrade these resources in your own data center.
Rebuffing the maintenance mindset, the preference for most IT departments is to spend more on innovation vs. the traditional “keep the lights on” tasks. However, because “turning the lights off” isn’t feasible, the bulk of IT budgets continue to be allocated to maintenance. A 2020 Deloitte Inisights report underscores the reality: the average IT department allocates over half its budget on maintenance but only 19 percent on innovation.
And according to a 2021 State of IT Spiceworks Ziff Davis study, updating outdated IT infrastructure is the number one factor driving IT budget increases — cited by 56% of organizations planning on growing IT spend.
Also driving cloud adoption is the need to address disaster recovery (DR). While DR has not been typically cost-effective for small to mid-sized businesses, many cloud vendors and providers offer DR solutions like DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) that address those challenges.
But perhaps the greatest driver of cloud adoption today is COVID-19. The pandemic’s disruption to the business landscape forced organizations to consider advanced technologies. The work from home or remote work model is here to stay, and the demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that allow teams to collaborate from anywhere is steadily increasing.
The main spheres of digital transformation
While one can argue that the components of digital transformation are numerous, we are highlighting five important spheres.
Security
As network access moves beyond the office perimeter to meet the demands of a remote workforce, robust security measures are required to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of corporate and customer data. |
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| Tags | Data Breach Threat |
| Stories | Deloitte |
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