Instead, they analyze the nature of the road and its associated risks, and proactively put the necessary protective measures in place.

When constructing a mountain road, builders do not simply decide on the road’s placement and wait for cars to fall off the cliff before implementing safety measures like guardrails. To be successful, companies must ensure that their products, services, and business operations are proactively resilient to cyber attacks by changing the role of cybersecurity in digital innovation. With the growing importance of digital innovation in business operations, products, and services, the potential risks and consequences of a successful cyber attack continue to increase, making the stakes higher than ever before.

However, these innovations introduce new cyber risks, as businesses adopt new technologies or leverage existing ones in novel ways, creating new pathways for cyber attacks. To keep pace with the disruptive forces of digital transformation, businesses must rapidly innovate to compete.

The first step is to incorporate cybersecurity into the initial design of products, services, and other technology-driven projects.ĭigital technologies are fundamentally transforming how industries operate and provide value to customers. The problem with this approach is that deploying cyber controls without understanding, in detail, how a particular business activity works will invariably leave it unprotected while simultaneously interfering with its efficient operation. Cybersecurity must expand beyond its traditional responsibilities of safeguarding company computers to become an integral part of mainstream business innovation, sharing responsibility for the protection, and creation, of business value. Under pressure to “move fast and break things,” it is understandable why development teams at times omit security altogether in initial product releases. Instead of incorporating security intrinsically into new products, services, and business activities, the conventional approach is to reactively apply cybersecurity controls in compliance with corporate security policies and standards. Traditional approaches to cybersecurity are largely at arms-length from innovation.

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