Digital Transformation During Lockdown

Lockdown: Dynamic Control-Flow Integrity

Applications written in low-level languages without type or memory safety are especially prone to memory corruption. Attackers gain code execution capabilities through such applications despite all currently deployed defenses by exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is a promising defense mechanism that restricts open control-flow transfers to a static set o...

Simplifying Network Management with Lockdown

The administrator of an enterprise network has a responsibility to enforce the policies on the network. Yet, most security mechanisms do not map well to the intended policies. This has been due to the prevalence of simplistic tools that have poor enforcement but, yet are easy to manage. While advanced commercial solutions do exist that have stronger enforcement, they are significantly harder to...

Digital Transformation Challenges

The digital transformation is still a protean concept, whose acceptances differ between practitioners and researchers. After a systematic literature review to clarify the definition and dimensions of this topic, we conducted an exploratory qualitative study to better understand the stakes and impacts of the digital transformation of businesses. Our first results show that digitalization represe...

Relaxed Lockdown in Bangladesh During COVID-19: Should Economy Outweigh Health?

Digital Innovation and Strategic Transformation

D igital technologies—and how we use them in our personal lives, work, and society—have changed the face of business and will continue to do so. Moreover, research organizations such as Gartner and Accenture, along with MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson,1 indicate that the digital technologies that underlie computers, robots, and smart equipment are changing rapidly, becoming more powerful, and t...