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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

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Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Making it easier to evaluate existing architecture against long-term goals.

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How Zero Trust is supposed to look

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Zero trust has quickly cemented itself as the go-to solution to the problems of these perimeter-based architectures. Sometimes it is described as a specific capability or yet another appliance (either hardware or virtual). Zscaler In terms of the “what,” this architecture should secure anything and everything within an organization.

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“If organisations are hacked, they should stay calm and act quickly by instantly activating their incident response plan”

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The Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities have also been increasing. According to Statista, the number of IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023. This continued emergence of cloud environments has greatly affected application development and their associated security architectures.

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Review of Industrial IoT Solutions – Part I

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The basic flow of data can be summarize like so: Events are emitted by IoT devices over OPC-UA or MQTT to a local broker. Industrial IoT (IIoT) solution overview diagram. The second, more modern option is MQTT, now available on most IoT devices and certain industrial equipments. Azure IoT Edge – Source: Azure.

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Finally leverage edge by adopting an as-a-service approach

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The open architecture, which is sometimes referred to as fog computing, drives storage and data processing towards a location where it’s needed. Next-generation technologies such as private 5G enable this edge connectivity, while IoT technologies deliver connected devices.

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Governance and Fighting the Curse of Complexity

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Consider today’s IT architecture world: on premises, outsourced data center, public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, the edge. There are also complex ERP and CRM solutions – as well as inputs from OT and IoT systems and devices. There will always be new computing paradigms: think of virtual reality or robotics or quantum computing.

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What are the main challenges CISOs are facing in the Middle East?

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The Internet of Things (IoT) vulnerabilities have also been increasing. According to Statista, the number of IoT devices exceeded 15 billion in 2023. This continued emergence of cloud environments has greatly affected application development and their associated security architectures.