For example, outsourcing is one of the chief vulnerabilities, according to survey participants. Yet 80 percent of the organizations surveyed aren't regularly assessing their outsourcer's compliance with security requirements and more than 70 percent of companies surveyed don't conduct extensive background security checks on outsourced employees.
Knowing about security risks is pointless unless you do something about them. Outsourcing partners should be given access to data on a "need to know" basis, with access-control policies in sync. And organizations must increase user security awareness--or face the consequences.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
