Cybersecurity in the age of hyperconnected enterprises: Risks & remedies
By Anant Agrawal, CEO & Managing Director, Skillmine Technology Consulting
The contemporary enterprise operates in a state of perpetual connectivity. Distributed cloud architectures, internet-of-things deployments, remote workforces, and interwoven supply chains have rendered the traditional notion of a defended network perimeter largely redundant. What has emerged in its place is the hyperconnected enterprise, an organisation whose competitive advantage is inseparable from its digital interdependencies, and whose exposure to adversarial risk has grown commensurately.
The expanding attack surface
A decade ago, the enterprise perimeter was a reasonably well-defined construct: a corporate network, a set of on-premises servers, and a firewall stood between the organisation and the outside world. That model has been effectively dismantled, not by design failure, but by the cumulative logic of digital transformation. Today, a mid-sized enterprise may operate workloads across multiple cloud providers, maintain integrations with dozens of third-party APIs, support thousands of employee-owned devices, and engage...
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