The Role of Cyber Security in Digital Transformation.

Every company today is now a data company.

Organizations are assigning capital value to data assets and in a climate where data breaches are commonplace, cybersecurity is not only an IT function – it drives the bottom line.

Businesses are really using data and analytics to drive revenue and profits, whether it's to reduce costs or at the top line. And that is becoming more material and more important for businesses. And because of that, what you have is cybersecurity being a business imperative instead of just an IT imperative sort of stuck down in the corner. Like it must be front and center.

Executives in all sectors have deepened their understanding of the dangers cyber risk poses to their business. As hacks, cyberattacks, and data leaks proliferate industry after industry, a holistic, enterprise-wide approach to cybersecurity has become a priority on board agendas. Companies are strengthening protections around their business models, core processes, and sensitive data. Regulators are applying their own pressures, and privacy demands are sharpening.

Every aspect of the digital enterprise has important cybersecurity implications. Here are just a few examples. As companies seek to create more digital customer experiences, they need to determine how to align their teams that manage fraud prevention, security, and product development so they can design controls, such as authentication, and create experiences that are both convenient and secure. As companies adopt massive data analytics, they must determine how to identify risks created by data sets that integrate many types of incredibly sensitive customer information. They must also incorporate security controls into analytics solutions that may not use a formal software-development methodology.

In response to aggressive digitization, some of the world’s most sophisticated cybersecurity functions are starting to transform their capabilities along the three dimensions we described: using quantitative risk analytics for decision making, building cybersecurity into the business value chain, and enabling the new technology operating platforms that combine many innovations. These innovations include agile approaches, robotics, cloud, and DevOps (the combination of software development and IT operations to shorten development times and deliver new features, fixes, and updates aligned with the business).

Leading companies are starting to build cybersecurity into their customer relationships, production processes, and supplier interactions.

Combined with Microsoft Windows Defender ATP, Sophos products deliver the strong data and cybersecurity that Digital organizations aspire to. Businesses can benefit from true defense-in-depth protection. Your business can operate with fewer IT staff who are assigned to cybersecurity work than an organization of equivalent size.

Sophos Synchronized Security enables your defenses to be as coordinated as the attacks they protect against. It combines an intuitive security platform with award-winning products that work together to block advanced threats, giving you unparalleled protection, automated incident response, and real-time insight and control.

Sophos Endpoint and network protection operate as one integrated security system, comprised of products that share a common interface and exchange real-time information back and forth to respond automatically to threats.

Simplified management makes the framework easy to set up and manage without additional analysts and event managers, while automated detection, isolation, and remediation results in attacks being neutralized in seconds – not hours or days.