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In which two ways has digitization transformed today's security threat landscape'? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is B. Expanding complexity C. Growing ecosystem. Digitization transforms the security threat landscape by expanding the complexity of environments and growing the interconnected ecosystem of devices and services that attackers can target.
Question
In which two ways has digitization transformed today's security threat landscape'? (Choose two.)
Options
- ADecreasing 3rd party applications
- BExpanding complexity
- CGrowing ecosystem
- DDecreasing endpoint ecosystem
- EIncreasing access points
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A6% (2)
- B89% (31)
- D3% (1)
- E3% (1)
Why each option
Digitization transforms the security threat landscape by expanding the complexity of environments and growing the interconnected ecosystem of devices and services that attackers can target.
Digitization increases third-party application usage rather than decreasing it, as organizations adopt more SaaS, cloud, and partner-integrated tools.
Expanding complexity is a direct result of digitization - as organizations adopt cloud, IoT, and interconnected systems, the number of interdependencies and configuration points grows, making environments harder to secure and giving attackers more vectors to exploit.
Growing ecosystem reflects the proliferation of connected devices, third-party services, and partner integrations that digitization enables - each new addition expands the potential attack surface and the breadth of targets available to threat actors.
Digitization expands the endpoint ecosystem significantly through IoT, mobile, and cloud endpoints, making a decrease factually incorrect.
Increasing access points is a real consequence of digitization, but it is not one of the two answers identified in Cisco's framework for how digitization changes the threat landscape - the focus is on complexity and ecosystem growth.
Concept tested: Impact of digitization on cybersecurity threat landscape
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/index.html
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