Cybersecurity at scale: Building resilient digital environments in a hyperconnected world

By Amardeep Sharma, CTO & Director, Praruh Technologies Ltd

The world that we currently live in is led by digitalised infrastructure. Everything that we see, for the most part, has a digital footprint. Organisations of the modern era have a majority of their information and processes secured in virtual ecosystems, where individuals, devices, and applications are connected in real-time across diverse geographies, platforms, and editing/viewing boundaries. With such hyperconnectivity easing innovation and operational productivity, the new workflows have brought new variations of cybersecurity threats that traditional models were not designed to manage.

As working assets and IPs are increasingly stored virtually on the cloud, Software-as-a-Service platforms, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Operational Technology (OT) systems, novel risks of cybersecurity breaches are surfacing. Previously, IT environments were largely untouched, but with sensitive information now being available on the internet and protected by a mere firewall, they ...