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The cloud represents the most critical aspect of digital transformation, according to respondents to the 2021 Frost & Sullivan Global Cloud User survey. As such, companies continue to build out their hybrid, multicloud environments to support strategic business goals, such as agility and improved customer experience. In the tenth annual survey of...

The ongoing arms race between cybercriminals and the cybersecurity industry leads security vendors and service providers to develop new solutions and technologies. In recent years, security players have harnessed machine learning, automation, big data, analytics, and other technology innovations to enhance, upgrade or completely reinvent cybersecur...

At the end of 2020, FireEye discovered malware distributed through software updates to the Orion Platform, a popular IT management product. SolarWinds, the platform supplier, was breached earlier that year and failed to detect hackers in its environment for several months. Because of the widespread usage of the SolarWinds software, victims of this ...

The concept of Security by Isolation aims to reduce the impact of cyberattacks by physically separating a user's system, OS, browser, or email from their local machine or the enterprise server. As a result, even if the security of one of the systems is compromised, the impact does not percolate to the rest of the infrastructure. The principle o...

Data-driven business operations coupled with the rise in remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant evolution of the hybrid cloud. What was initially comprised of one or possibly two public clouds connected to one or more corporate or hosted data centers has advanced to include not only major points of presence—like data ce...

Digitalization is gradually replacing paper-based tasks with digital processes. Standardized and monotonous processes are prime candidates for automation through robotic process automation (RPA), which deploys software bots replicating and automating procedures across applications and environments. RPA automates repetitive, labor-intensive, and tim...

This edition of the Cyber Security Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides a snapshot on emerging cyber security solutions powered by cloud-, API-, and artificial intelligence-based innovations that help companies protect from threats, data breaches, phishing attacks and defend against modern attacks residing within cloud infrastructure, e-m...

Digital technologies such as AI, analytics, cloud, and digital twin are playing a key role in the transformation of the water industry. The application of these advanced technologies helps water resource authorities (both municipal and non-municipal authorities) to address various challenges related to the monitoring of water quality, the improveme...

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the move to digital channels, the cloud, and self-service customer care so financial companies could take advantage of new technologies to keep businesses running sans a staff yet maintain a satisfactory level of customer experience (CX). BFSI companies are focusing on improving digital experiences such as digital ...