The Global Impact of Digital Transformation with CyberTheory

A new year, a new opportunity.happy to share with you a Podcast with CyberTheory with it's managing director Steve King .As we’re all rushing madly toward the fourth industrial revolution, it is putting tremendous pressure on cybersecurity efforts. Rudy Shoushany, an expert in digital transformation strategy weighs in on what digital transformation means and where we stand in terms of progress on the digital transformation journey.Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new, or even disrupt the current business processes, the culture, customer experience, to meet those ever changing business and market requirements.Check out the full episode.https://lnkd.in/dNDKmH6bIn this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, we discussed:How to tackle the global talent shortage;The differences in the UAE and the US’s approach to digital transformation;How adopting a digital transformation strategy can solve the problems our world is facing.Full transcript of the conversation.Steve King 00:13Good day everyone, I’m Steve King, the managing director of cyber theory. Today’s episode is going to focus on digital transformation and its global impact. Joining me today is Rudy Shoshone, the founder of dx talks and a top 100 thought leader on digital transformation. With a 20 year background in financial services technology leadership in both United Arab Emirates and Middle East and North Africa, Rudy also serves on the Osaka board, and sits on the strategy committee for digital transformation and Lebanon. So welcome, really, I’m glad you could join me today.Rudy Shoushany 00:58Thank you for the invite. Really pleasure for me to be on this podcast today to try to really enhance the meaning of digital transformation and try to lightly touch base and get more information on the topic.Steve King 01:15Yeah, and it’s a topic of topics isn’t that we’re all rushing madly toward the industrial revolution for Dotto, which is putting tremendous pressure on cybersecurity efforts. So we’re in 5g is right around the corner. So it seems like we’ve been talking about this for years now, in your view, and you come at this from a part of the world that has more recently embraced digital transformation. What does digital transformation mean? And where do we stand in your mind on on progress there?Rudy Shoushany 01:54Thanks for the question. Well, as you know, you know, digital transformation means many things for different types of people, wherever they are coming from their background, and so on. Let me try to simplify it in a way that digital transformationSteve KingKing, an experienced cybersecurity professional, has served in senior leadership roles in technology development for the past 19 years. He has founded nine startups, including Endymion Systems and see Commerce. He has held leadership roles in marketing and product development, operating as CEO, CTO and CISO for several startups, including Netswitch Technology Management. He also served as CIO for Memorex and was the co-founder of the Cambridge Systems Group. He has been granted engineering patents encompassing remote access multi-factor authentication using adaptive machine learning, applied cyber-threat intelligence networks, a universal IoT security architecture, contextual semantic search technologies, web-enabled multimedia transfers, image capture and database smart query processing.