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Digital transformation during the pandemic impacted many industries and their business. Embracing emerging technologies like AI and data analytics enhanced the efficiency and agility of businesses. The transformation is here to stay and so are the challenges related. Since the digitization process was rapid, many wouldn’t have thought much about the challenges it might pose in the coming years. Technology can empower business enterprises and simultaneously bring in technical challenges to maintain them. 

Ensuring Better Cybersecurity

The quick digital transformation powered by the pandemic resulted in a surge of cyber attacks and data breaches. The FBI reported a spike in cyberattacks during the pandemic and received around 3,000 to 4,000 cybersecurity complaints each day. 

A major shift in workspaces from offices to remote work and increased digital traffic escalated the vulnerability and gave way to more cyber attacks like ransomware, phishing, data breaches, etc. This scenario is sure to continue in the coming years and enterprises should ensure and improve cybersecurity measures to tackle them. 

Organizations should train their employees to back up data, frequently change passwords, and do software updations to ensure basic safety. Business enterprises should entertain programs to spread awareness on cybersecurity among the employees. Ensuring cybersecurity will mitigate data breaches and ensure a safer working environment. 

Remote Work is Here to Stay

The sudden shift to remote work was not easy to deal with. Many found it difficult to establish technical requirements for the same. Although remote working ecosystems are convenient and comfortable in many ways, it also possesses some challenges and complexity. A Gartner survey of 317 CFOs and finance leaders revealed that 74% intend to shift at least 5% of their previously on-site employees permanently to remote positions post-pandemic. 

With remote working systems continuing in coming years, organizations should ensure better technical support and improve network security. In such a scenario, employees might use personal and public networks without any security protocols and the software updations might lag behind thus creating an unsafe system.  Business organizations should implement secure remote connectivity with endpoint security to tackle the issues. Employees should be advised not to use personal accounts to store or share professional details and instead use cloud services for sharing work-related documents. Embracing VPN connections and leveraging password managing systems are also necessary. 

Technology Upgrades

Businesses should enhance their IT support system to ensure better compliance and security. The rapid digital transformation demands faster up-gradation of technologies. Organizations should consider embracing new technologies and solutions to increase efficiency. Clinging on to conventional technologies and systems will negatively impact productivity. 

Organizations are struggling to maintain agility and resilience and are in search of scalable and flexible solutions. Businesses are also in a consistent workout to establish better customer relations and employee sanity which can be imperative in the cooking years.