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Challenges to software-defined network adoption: Enterprises need to address multiple challenges beyond upfront investments that inhibit SDN adoption
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As enterprise bot adoption increases, although bot design and structured onboarding are important, organizations can only reap the full value if the bot environment works holistically. For this to happen, the vision, assurance, governance, security, and scalability need to evolve.
In today’s digital world, automation and user experience have become critical for enterprises. Bots – which drive operational efficiency and facilitate consumer engagement – are central to the strategy of any forward-looking enterprise. However, as these bots proliferate, enterprises face significant challenges.
The high entropy data protection space has once again gained headlines after Equifax, the U.S- based consumer credit reporting agency, revealed that a July 2017 theft compromised more than 143 million American, British, and Canadian consumers’ personal data. The data breach incident, one of the worst cyber-attacks in history, was conducted by hackers who exploited a vulnerability in the company’s U.S. website and stole information such as social security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and driver’s license numbers. (Equifax maintains and develops its database by purchasing data records from banks, credit unions, credit card companies, retailers, mortgage lenders, and public record providers.)
Much about the situation would have been considerably different had this breach happened after May 2018, at which time the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – a regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU) – goes into effect. Even though it is not headquartered in the EU region, Equifax would have come under the purview of GDPR, because it maintains and reports the data of British citizens. And the stringency of requirements and degree of implications would have been significantly higher for the credit rating agency.
Although not directly related to GDPR, another significant business impact is the sudden “retirement” of Equifax’s CEO less than three weeks after the breach was announced.
This massive cyber-attack is a wake-up call for the services industry. Starting today, operations and businesses must regard data protection regulations with the utmost importance. Non-compliance will not only harm firms financially, but also expose them to brand dilution and business continuity risks.
Some of the key imperatives for enterprises operating in the ever-so-stringent data protection space include:
To learn more about the strategic impact of the EU GDPR on the global services industry, please read our recently released viewpoint on GDPR: “EU GDPR: Is There a Silver Lining to the Disruption.”
Top Internet of Things Security Solutions Providers: Bastille, CyberX, Mocana, Pwnie Express, Rubicon
49% of organizations have implemented or piloted IOT with the goal of business optimization and efficiency; however, the unfamiliar IT/IOT convergence is creating adoption challenges across the IOT stack, and enterprises are taking a cautious approach
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