Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance

Nowadays it is impossible to imagine a business without technology as most industries are becoming ""smarter"" and more tech-driven, ranging from small individual tech initiatives to complete business models with intertwined supply chains and ""platform""-based business models.

New ways of working, such as agile and DevOps, have been introduced, leading to new risks. These risks come in the form of new challenges for teams working together in a distributed manner, privacy concerns, human autonomy, and cybersecurity concerns.

Technology is now integrated into the business discipline and is here to stay leading to the need for a thorough understanding of how to address these risks and all the potential problems that could arise. With the advent of organized crime, such as hacks and denial-of-service attacks, all kinds of malicious actors are infiltrating the digital society in new and unique ways.

Systems with poor design, implementation, and configurations are easily taken advantage of. When it comes to integrating business and technology, there needs to be approaches for assuring security against risks that can threaten both businesses and their digital platforms.

Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance offers comprehensive design science research approaches to extensively examine risks in digital platforms and offer pragmatic solutions to these concerns and challenges. This book addresses significant problems when transforming an organization embracing API-based platform models, the use of DevOps teams, and issues in technological architectures. Each section will examine the status quo for business technologies, the current challenges, and core success factors and approaches that have been used.

This book is ideal for security analysts, software engineers, computer engineers, executives, managers, IT consultants, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students who want to gain insight and deeper knowledge of security in digital platforms and gain insight into the most important success factors and approaches utilized by businesses.

Yuri Bobbert is a business scientist. He is Chief Security Officer at ON2IT, a global cybersecurity player and academic director / professor at Antwerp Management School (AMS). Bobbert holds a double PhD from both the University of Antwerp and Radboud University. He is specialized in establishing risk, security, and compliance functions within a wide variety of organizations. He advised +300 companies. Bobbert served for 10 years as CEO of B-ABLE and 6 years as CRO/CSO of UWV and NN Group. At NN Group he led the merge with Delta Lloyd. Bobbert published +100 papers, books, and blogs.

Maria Chtepen is a security practitioner with a strong background in Enterprise Architecture. Over 15 years of experience within different industries working across business and technology teams. Building collaboration and communities across varying organizational domains to achieve the optimal synergies between technology and company goals and objectives. Maria has a strong academic background and is an author of various publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Tapan Kumar comes from India and holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from renowned university in India and did his masters from Antwerp management school in Enterprise It Architecture (2018-2020). He has worked with few of the biggest IT organizations like IBM, Cognizant and Tata Consultancy Services in his 15-year career. With his experience and specialization within Banking and Financial domain he has always been associated with a consultancy organization that worked in a distributed model, initially with the waterfall model in lately with the agile model. Tapan started his career as a mainframe engineer and gradually found interest in the field of architect and currently he the Solution/Application architect within a leading bank in The Netherlands in the domain of Payments and Cards.

Yves Vanderbeken helps clients introducing new business models based on adoption of digital strategies and technologies. He works as country CTO in Belgium for a global IT Services company. Yves manages the development of strategic Business – IT roadmaps with client leadership, focusing on the full spectrum of IT (Information, Applications, and Infrastructure). With over 25 years of experience in IT, Yves combines extensive cross industry expertise from government, finance, and manufacturing. Yves holds 2 MBA degrees from Antwerp Management School. His book chapters are based on a combination of academic research and working at some of the referenced agencies.

Dennis Verslegers is a seasoned IT Security Expert with over 20 years of experience in a wide variety of roles. His passion is to bring Business and IT together on Cyber Security and help them step up and get security right. Being active as a Strategic Advisor Application Security at a global security provider, he engages in risk management and secure development advisory services for several international organizations and institutions. Dennis holds an MSc degree from Antwerp Management School and multiple professional certifications. He loves to actively share his knowledge as an ISACA trainer and guest lecturer at Antwerp Management School.