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Managing Risks in Digital Transformation

By : Ashish Kumar, Shashank Kumar, Abbas Kudrati
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Book Image

Managing Risks in Digital Transformation

5 (1)
By: Ashish Kumar, Shashank Kumar, Abbas Kudrati

Overview of this book

With the rapid pace of digital change today, especially since the pandemic sped up digital transformation and technologies, it has become more important than ever to be aware of the unknown risks and the landscape of digital threats. This book highlights various risks and shows how business-as-usual operations carried out by unaware or targeted workers can lead your organization to a regulatory or business risk, which can impact your organization’s reputation and balance sheet. This book is your guide to identifying the topmost risks relevant to your business with a clear roadmap of when to start the risk mitigation process and what your next steps should be. With a focus on the new and emerging risks that remote-working companies are experiencing across diverse industries, you’ll learn how to manage risks by taking advantage of zero trust network architecture and the steps to be taken when smart devices are compromised. Toward the end, you’ll explore various types of AI-powered machines and be ready to make your business future-proof. In a nutshell, this book will direct you on how to identify and mitigate risks that the ever- advancing digital technology has unleashed.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Part 1: Invisible Digitization Tsunami
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Chapter 1: Invisible Digitization Tsunami
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Part 2: Risk Redefined at Work
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Part 3: The Future

Cyberwarfare

War simply means a period or state of fighting between two countries or entities. War often means two countries are in an armed conflict. At times, we also talk about war in the context of poverty. So, in popular consciousness, war refers to a state where a country, organization, or other entity expends an enormous effort in terms of arms, money, and resources to attempt to be victorious over another party with an opposing point of view.

While war itself is a state, warfare is the engagement model or tactics deployed to win. Cyberwarfare is a new form of this, where computing devices and technology are used to digitally attack an enemy country, organization, or entity. The objective of a cyberwar is to inflict damage on people or objects not limited to military assets in the real world.

Much of the time, cyberwarfare as a term has been used by the media at large to describe how countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, China, Israel, Russia, Iran, North...