A transformation is happening. The penetration of Internet and the connected proliferation of all things digital, from this era and into the future, is innovatively bringing about new ways to deliver business services. Enterprises and users alike have rapidly transformed to inevitably embrace this change. The distances between businesses, customers, partners, consumers and commodities have shrunk to the size of our very palms. The digital world (a.k.a) cyber space has opened up new spaces, a new vista where every market is within reach, everyone is a stakeholder and everything is connected.
The digital transformation is fuelled by the rapid demand for high-speed broadband, rising number of smartphone users and IP connected devices, thereby, causing an unprecedented increase in the volume of digital data and network traffic produced. Your business flows in the form of digital data that primarily defines the structure, complexity and the scale of your organization. All data traverses through cyber space and converges in your network.
Where there is growth and possibilities, there are risks and the fear of the unknown. Going digital is a boon, but cyber space is like an ocean’s abyss. Enterprises and users need to tread very carefully and intelligently, by preparing for the best and being protected from the worst.
It is therefore, essential for enterprises to gain an accurate understanding of their presence and vulnerabilities in the cyber world – to stay informed, secure and protected from the evils of cyber – crimes, attacks, threats, thefts, espionage, etc., from human vulnerabilities, prying hackers, competitors and other miscreants.
‘Cyber Security’ has existed for a long time. We are all too familiar, with firewall devices and anti- virus programs that have formed the first lines of digital defence. Have most enterprises have survived crisis-free, from major risks in the decades that have gone by? Or is it that we were simply not aware of the risks and attacks that have continuously happened around us?
The cyber incidents recorded in history still sends shockwaves for the collateral damages already caused.
Digital penetration in the present day has already struck awe with every individual, surpassing every dream, crossing many eons into the future – The rise of the machine-human integration has already.
