Martin Kuppinger, founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole recently spoke in his keynote presentation at the European Identity & Cloud Conference about how IT has to transform and how Information Security can become a business enabler for the Digital Transformation of Business. 

He presented eight “Fundamentals for Digital Risk Mitigation” 

1. Digital Transformation affects every organization 
2. Digital Transformation is here to stay
3. Digital Transformation is more than just Internet of Things (IoT) 
4. Digital Transformation mandates Organizational Change
5. Everything & Everyone becomes connected 
6. Security and Safety is not a dichotomy 
7. Security is a risk and an opportunity 
8. Identity is the glue and access control is what companies need

I particularly like his statements about security being both risk and opportunity and that “Identity is the glue” that holds things together.

Wish I could have been there to hear it in person.

Fifty four years ago today, on May 5, 1961, a long time before I knew anything about Cinco de Mayo, Mercury Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. blasted off in his Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. His 15-minute sub-orbital flight made him the first American in space. 

His flight further fueled my love for space travel that had been building since the Sputnik and Vanguard satellites were launched a few years previously.