2022 Predictions
RFG Perspective: COVID-19 remains the top concern of most governments globally as 2022 begins, with limited prospects that it will disappear anytime soon. The global economic and geopolitical environments will be negatively impacted by mandates and shutdowns around the world – for at least the first half of 2022.
Summary Insights: Data Protection at the Edge Is Essential for the Distributed Enterprise
RFG Perspective: Securing applications and data at the Edge requires an expanded, encompassing, and holistic security strategy, reaching from the Core to the Cloud to the Edge. Data protection and storage at the Edge, in addition to transmission of sensitive data to and from the Edge, is an evolving challenge for IT.
Summary Insights: Data Protection at the Edge Is Essential for the Distributed Enterprise
Summary Insights: Carbon Neutral/Sustainable Data Centers
RFG Perspective: There is a business case for investing in carbon neutral/sustainable data centers. While there is a limited return on switching to renewable energy resources, executives will find that there is a strong business case for energy efficiency and water conservation in data centers.
Summary Insights: Carbon Neutral/Sustainable Data Centers
Summary Insights: Making Security First a Prime Directive
RFG Perspective: Enterprises need to drive "security first" best practices that effectively make it a prime directive similar to the "cloud first" directive. The modern world is comprised of a new, more expansive and invasive cloud-enabled reality that is impacting and interwoven with every phase of software development and operations
Summary Insights: Making Security First a Prime Directive
Summary Insights: Confidential Computing and Protecting Data in Use
RFG Perspective: Unprotected sensitive data exposes an enterprise to fraud, identity theft and the theft of personal and confidential information. These data breaches can prove to be quite expensive for organizations – both in terms of financial impacts and reputational risk. Executives should be striving to reduce their risks from external and internal bad actors. It is for that reason that executives should examine the recent development known as Confidential Computing.
Summary Insights: Confidential Computing and Protecting Data in Use
Summary Insights: The Keys to Mainstreaming Next-Level DevSecOps
RFG Perspective: As organizations transition toward mainstream DevSecOps adoption, the DevSecOps method of application development still faces opposition due to technical obstacles and business pushback to change. Business and IT executives must acknowledge these obstacles to DevSecOps adoption – and they must address them so that developers will be able to deliver more consistent and secure code. Otherwise, cyberattacks and ransomware attacks could become more frequent – and more damaging to a firm’s brand – than ever before.
Summary Insights: The Keys to Mainstreaming Next-Level DevSecOps
Summary Insights: Hybrid Cloud: Making It Work for You
RFG Perspective: Ever since CEOs declared “cloud first” as the enterprise directive, cloud development and deployment strategies have consumed enterprise growth strategies – and gained executive mindshare.
Summary Insights: Hybrid Cloud: Making It Work for You
Summary Insights: Building A Cyber Report Card for the Board
RFG Perspective: With the constant barrage of ransomware attacks highlighting code vulnerabilities throughout DevOps and production pipelines, enterprises and governments are being pressed to prove they have adequately protected their organizations from internal and external threats.
Summary Insights: Building A Cyber Report Card for the Board
Summary Insights: Preventing Cloud Data Exposures
RFG Perspective: There are three types of cloud data exposures that enterprises need to guard against: rogue or ungoverned shadow IT clouds; gaps created by hybrid multi-cloud inconsistencies; and the inability to stop unauthorized users or data from being copied, modified or stored. Data loss prevention (DLP) is, therefore, an important area for improving data-protection policies and guidelines throughout the organization.
Summary Insights: Preventing Cloud Data Exposures
Summary Insights: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Best Practices
RFG Perspective: Data loss can undermine customer trust, damage an enterprise’s reputation – and ultimately cause a loss of revenue. Even though email remains the top attack vector for security events, followed by Web applications
Summary Insights: Data Loss Prevention Best Practices