#InfosecurityOnline: Adapting Security Strategies to Growing Digitalization

The significant challenges around ensuring cybersecurity adapts to the rapid digitalization of organizations was the topic of discussion during a panel at the Infosecurity Online event.

The panel speakers first highlighted how digitalization has fundamentally changed the ways companies operate over recent years, such as the greater use of data and offering digital products as well as the shift to remote working brought about by COVID-19. “The journey to digital transformation has been happening for quite some time now,” noted Amitabh Singh, chief information security officer and chief data officer at Swisscard AECS GmbH.

Ledum Maeba, head of information security, Avanti Communications, said that it is important to have a very cautious security approach when it comes to digitalization. “We are digitalizing everything we do, but we are very cautious in what we do; we take every process very seriously and we make sure all security concerns are addressed before we do anything.” 

Before specific digital projects begin, Simon Cole, global security architecture and solutions director at Dentsu, outlined how security should become one of the key considerations: “You have to define what success looks like and that’s with many lenses, so what it means for the business, but also what it means from a security perspective.”

Very often this is not the case. Singh said: “So far when we’ve been working on security, it comes as a retrofit requirement, so we build certain things into digital transformation then security comes later on,” adding that “sec ..

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