How Cybersecurity Can Best Support the Digital Enterprise

Two consistent and related themes in enterprise technology have emerged in recent years, both involving rapid and dramatic change. One is the rise of the digital enterprise across sectors and internationally. The second is the need for IT to react quickly and aggressively develop innovations to meet the enterprise’s digital aspirations. Exhibit 1 presents a “digitization index”—the results of research on the progress of enterprise digitization within companies, encompassing sectors, assets, and operations. As IT organizations seek to do this, however, many face significant cybersecurity challenges. At company after company, fundamental tensions arise between the business’s need to digitize and cybersecurity’s responsibility to protect the organization, its employees and its customers, within existing cyber operating models and practices.