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What is digital risk and why is it important?

Published on April 30, 2025   24 min

A selection of talks on Technology & Operations

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Hi. my name is Amalia Barthel. I'm an advisor, consultant, and educator in the areas of digital risk, digital data risks, privacy compliance, and governance. Welcome to my 10 talks about digital risk. This is the first talk in the series titled What Is Digital Risk and Why is it Important.
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In this introductory talk, I explain what digital risk is and how organizations have been impacted post pandemic.
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Due to the increased practice of working from home, the proliferation of video conferencing, communication, and less in person interactions as well as the explosion of technologies and innovation in science, healthcare and AI artificial intelligence. The opportunities for malicious actors have increased exponentially. This reliance on technology is unprecedented and the virtual erasure of borders influx of machine learning and artificial intelligence field transactional and administrative tools in Cloud environments has made it very easy for organizations to sign up to use these tools without proper due diligence. Let's go back to what is digital risk. It is the risk that has expanded from applications and systems to all the ways in which digital data is created, disseminated, accessed, used, archived and stored or saved. It goes beyond the traditional walls of an organization beyond its known infrastructure and into the entire ecosystem which includes Cloud and generative AI or artificial intelligence. While in the classical sense of IT risk management,

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