Managing Risks in Digital Transformation

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The Human Risk at the Workplace

Before we begin learning about different types of risks, let us look at an example to get a glimpse into how risks can look in real time. A computer engineer and a member of the IT team in the world’s leading oil and gas company once opened an email and clicked a malicious link by mistake. The email looked authentic enough, and purportedly came from one of his colleagues, and the link that he clicked had an innocuous call to check a document that his colleague had shared. That opened the door to a group of hackers who proceeded to take over thousands of computers in the company network. The next few days at the company were frantic. This was expounded by the fact that the employee made this mistake during the ...