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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

Pandemic and remote working

A virtual private network (VPN) is a technology that allows users to securely access a private network and share data remotely through public networks. VPNs are often used by remote workers to securely connect to their company’s network while WFH. This allows them to access files, applications, and other resources as if they were physically on the company’s network. Additionally, a VPN can also help to protect the user’s internet connection from potential threats, such as hackers. Many organizations had a similar setup and they came under stress during the pandemic. Most organizations had created this VPN or WFA environment for their executives or on-field employees. The capacity of this infrastructure was not meant to serve everyone working from a remote location. Boom! Along came the pandemic, and the limited capacity of this remote working infrastructure was put to a stringent test. Most companies struggled to issue laptops to all...