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EU earmarks €763m for digital transformation, cybersecurity

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As part of its Digital Europe work programmes for 2024, the European Commission has assigned €762.7m in funds for Digital transformation, AI, cybersecurity, and more.

According to telecoms.com, the lion’s share of the funds, nearly €549m, will be spent delivering continuity and evolution of ongoing projects and the multi-country projects under the Digital Decade targets (a roadmap that aims to accelerate the digital transformation of Member States by 2030).

The ongoing projects, originally launched in March, include the use of digital technologies such as supercomputers, data, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and advanced digital skills. The multi-country projects involve increased efforts on AI, as well as additional actions related to key digital policies such as virtual worlds, cloud, and quantum.

“The Digital Europe Programme is key for pooling EU and national funding to achieve ambitious digital projects that no Member State can do alone.” said Margrethe Vestager, VP at EU. “It is crucial that Europe continues to support our digital decade targets with enhanced focus on digital skills, excellence in artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.”

New activities will also get launched under the funding that aim to support the implementation of the AI Act, EU’s approach to ensuring the development of AI includes ethical underpinnings, and the development of a European AI ecosystem with special focus on small and medium enterprises.

Other policy areas the EU considers key as part of this subsection of the funding include “seed funding for a pilot demonstrating seamless integration and interoperability of Industrial IoT Edge with Telco Edge developments, the establishment of a 3D Competence Centre for the Cultural Heritage sector, and the provision of quantum-based metabolic MRI sensors for cancer diagnosis and treatment.”

The remaining €214m has been earmarked for cybersecurity with the view to improve the collective resilience of member states against cyber threats, including the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act.

The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) will be in charge of implementing the actions under this work…

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Netskope – Security Transformation For Digital Transformation

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Recently I sat down with Sanjay Beri, the founder, and CEO of Netskope. Sanjay is a leader who looks to “skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” I feel like I can use the overused immortal words because Sanjay grew up in Toronto, plus a decade ago, he envisioned widespread use of cloud applications and enterprise internet access from anywhere a lot faster than most anticipated.

Netskope – born in the cloud

In 2012, Netskope was a company founded on a core belief that people and companies should be able to securely collaborate and work safely across the cloud, web, devices, and multiple locations.

Once upon a time, all infrastructure and data were within the walls of a data center. The role of security was to protect the perimeter. Life was simple back then – a castle and a moat. There is no perimeter to defend in the cloud-first, work-anywhere world we live today. Security needs to follow the data, and a virtual enterprise edge (or enterprise on-ramp to the Internet, cloud, and private apps, as Netskope called it) is required.

Netskope built architecture from the ground up to comprehend remote and mobile traffic, non-browser traffic, and data moving to and from the cloud. The emerging software-as-a-service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) were the early use cases for the cloud security platform.

Digital transformation will fail without security transformation

Now that digital transformation has become a business imperative, with the cloud as its foundation, the Netskope cloud-native, cloud-scale security platform has come of age.

Critical data now resides in cloud services outside the physical data center perimeter. Employees are more mobile and less tied to the corporate headquarters. Employees might be working from home or in a coffee shop and need to access work applications that now reside in the cloud from a laptop or smartphone. Traditional network security controls for a data center cannot adequately secure the cloud and mobile world.

Direct-to-net (sometimes referred to as Split Tunneling) is becoming the norm for most IT organizations. Direct-to-Net allows employees to access the Internet and…

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Axis Bank enables secure digital transformation with Microsoft solutions

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The internet has evolved rapidly over the last decade, which has resulted in a significant change in the way organizations function today. Rajesh Thapar, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Axis Bank, attributes an organization’s success to its ability to enable digital transformation through innovation. AndAxis Bank has relied on Microsofttoachieve secure digital transformation.

Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India, servicing large and mid-size companies, besides regular customers. With a market cap of USD 33.07 billion, the bank has over eight international centres beside India, making it essential to protect and safeguard sensitive financial data.

Ten years ago, a typical cyber agenda was only to protect the perimeter. Now, detection and response have become more crucial because breaches can happen any time and perimeters have disappeared. This has led to a dramatic change in the threat landscape.

“Earlier, security professionals largely knew the threats they were facing, which guided an organization’s security strategy. But with digital transformation journeys involving entities across the boundaries of enterprise, newer threats keep evolving. Now organizations deal with potential attack vectors all the time and one of the key objectives to protect is by minimising the risk ‘unknown unknowns,” says Thapar.

Banks align with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework. The first pillar of this framework is getting acquainted with your infrastructure and identifying risks and recognizing the regulatory mandates within which an organization must function.After identification, organizations must work to eliminate these risks with finite budgets, resources, and time. Strategizing and prioritizing become very important at this stage.

“At Axis Bank, we decided to implement different frameworks to counter threats. We used a mix of administrative, processes, and tools-based controls to safeguard our IT infrastructure,” says Thapar.

One of the oldest threat actors, which still exists, is malware. Second would be DDOS attacks, not just in the banking sector, but across every…

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Cloud computing, mobile and cyber security: The technologies driving digital transformation

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Secure connectivity, cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity – all these are synonymous with digital transformation. Work from home and hybrid work trends have only accelerated the importance of digital transformation and the need for companies to have secure and reliable remote working solutions in place.

These trends are expected to remain – long after the pandemic – because of the benefits they bring such as flexibility, productivity, work-life balance and cost savings.

Therefore, with dispersed workforces across multiple locations and various countries, having secure and scalable digital networks that can safely facilitate remote working and business continuity across devices is a top business priority for leaders.

Sparkle’s technical solutions

Global communications operator and one of the top ten worldwide, Sparkle is a reliable partner for multinational enterprises seeking to connect their workforces and manage communications across a range of sites and networks.

Sparkle has the capability to offer international connectivity and communication services to a wide range of companies across the globe. Its services include internet, data, cloud, data centre, mobile and voice, delivered over a proprietary fibre backbone of more than 600,000 km with 170 points of presence around the world. The company has commercial offices in 32 countries.

Its enterprise services are extensive, including networking solutions – to connect the client’s headquarters with branches and remote workers or with their applications in the cloud – communication services and security, are provided not only as a technological solution, but also as a training tool to enhance cyber security skills of IT managers.

In the network services area, Sparkle’s multi-vendor Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) solution offers secure, fast and flexible private networks based on the best technologies available in the market. The technology has been reinforced with Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to deliver even greater levels of security.

Enterprise partnerships with Sparkle

Companies with plants, fleets, cargo and other assets can integrate more interconnectivity and smart automation using Sparkle’s…

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