CEOs are in favor of digital transformation but technological shortcomings and security issues persist. How do producers respond If ...
CEOs are in favor of digital transformation but technological shortcomings and security issues persist. How do producers respond
If digital transformation, and its corollary to the cloud, is one of the highlights of the moment, there are no problems for that. In essence, there is a rose with a large number of spines, and this is evident from a study conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit on the CEOs of five continents and commissioned by BT, two are emerging: technological shortcomings and fears of security.
Reality often resides in the numbers and even in this case are fairly clear. About forty percent of CEOs put digital transformation at the top of board needs and just under a quarter is committed to piloting corporate programs that are being launched for that purpose.
The objectives to be achieved, examined in more detail in the September issue of Cloud & Business, are greater operational efficiency, customer service improvement, future innovation and security, all of which are considered a differential key in order to succeed in the market.
At the same time managers also point out that greater integration, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are the most important and necessary elements to realize the infrastructure that will be the foundation of the digital business of the future.
When it comes to meeting their digital ambitions, more than a quarter of CEOs consider security as a differential key. This view is prevalent in consumer-oriented sectors, and it does not surprisingly grow up to nearly 50 percent for CEOs operating in the financial services sector.
Security requirements (see Cloud and Business in September) are pushing security industry companies to propose more and more sophisticated solutions.
For example, Forcepoint has strengthened its cloud security portfolio by providing IT teams with new behavioral controls that simplify employee protection, critical business data, and intellectual property.
New features, available in Forcepoint CASB, Forcepoint Web Security, and Forcepoint Email Security, enable, explained the company, resorting to Cloud as the engine for developing its business safely and reliably.
For its part, Fortinet, another company active in the development of high performance cybersecurity solutions, has announced the availability of its FortiGate Virtual Machine (VM) security solution for VMware Cloud on AWS customers.
In practice, FortiGate VM is a solution that aims to enable VMware Cloud on AWS users to extend their own private cloud cloud VMware, with site-to-site connectivity, cross-cloud segmentation and the definition of security policies that are consistent with the different clouds involved in implementing the resulting hybrid cloud.
XGen Security, a solution recently introduced by Trend Micro, is targeted at SMEs. This is a set of intergenerational defense techniques that includes a blend of advanced threat defense techniques and intelligently applying the most appropriate technology and the moment it serves, evolving and learning progressively.
Through machine learning, the files are scanned before and during execution to reduce false positives. All capabilities are powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, the global cloud-based threat intelligence that provides quick response updates when a new threat is detected to allow faster protection.
