Digital transformation comes with a cost — increased IT complexity

Digital transformation has long been a focus of government agencies of all sizes, and it’s changed how the government operates, making it more agile and responsive to the people it serves. But this transformation has come at a cost — a rambling web of software tools and applications, cloud infrastructures, and decentralized application services. And this complexity presents a big challenge to IT teams. In tandem with digital transformation initiatives has been the rise of the remote workforce, making traditional network perimeters a thing of the past. Many IT resources now operate outside of an organization’s firewall and are vulnerable to cyber threats of all kinds. The result? A much larger and more varied attack surface. Tackling complexity and the security risks it presents As complexity has taken hold, IT organizations have armed themselves with a litany of tools to tackle their most pressing security challenges. A Forrester survey found that on average, organizations today use 20 or more tools from more than 10 vendors to secure and operate their environment. Many large organizations use upwards of 40 to 50 tools — all point solutions. This is tool proliferation in the extreme. A point solution approach works — if […]

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