The winners in this market won’ t be the biggest spenders, but rather those who are most prepared.
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from measurable business outcomes; and skills gaps and a shared vision that’ s aligned to the same enterprise transformation direction. and recoverable. The strategy shifts from preventing every incident to engineering resilience into the operating model.
Kyndryl Consult addresses this by implementing investment guardrails and using a BOTT( Build – Operate – Transfer) approach we build on our customers’ behalf, cooperate and then transfer by developing the capabilities of the organisation and upskilling for future operations. This provides manpower and training / enablement in conjunction with KPI-led roadmaps and outcome-based funding models. Spend becomes intentional, visible and defensible at the board level.
Almost half of organisations in the survey report rising cyberattacks, but only one-infour leaders is confident in their defences. How does the approach‘ automate for scale, not just efficiency’ address this security confidence gap?
I believe the confidence gap exists as some organisations are still managing cyber-risk as a control problem, when it has become a systems problem.
The GITEX survey shows 43 % of organisations experienced an increase in attacks, yet only onein-four leaders feels very confident in their cyber posture. The Kyndryl Readiness Report deepens this insight as 86 % of leaders in the UAE cite experiencing a cyber-related outage this year, many of which were caused by human error, network failures and third-party dependencies – not sophisticated attacks alone.
This tells us security confidence doesn’ t fail at the perimeter, it fails in operations.‘ Automate for scale’ is not about efficiency but about absorbing volatility. At scale, automation:
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Investment in AI / ML is high, however, the report stresses the need to‘ invest with discipline’. How do robust data foundations and integration guardrails ensure investment in AI advances growth and risk reduction collectively?
We see similar results between both reports in terms of the challenges organisations are facing
The winners in this market won’ t be the biggest spenders, but rather those who are most prepared.
when scaling their AI investments. The GITEX survey shows AI / ML is the top investment priority, but the Kyndryl report explains why outcomes diverge: 70 % of UAE organisations report increased pressure to demonstrate ROI on AI investments compared to last year. Yet AI adoption remains largely experimental, with 66 % stating their innovation efforts stall after proof-of-concept and 67 % citing foundational issues in their technology stack as a major barrier.
Robust data foundations and integration guardrails do three things simultaneously:
• Enable growth by allowing AI to scale beyond pilots into core business processes.
• Reduce risk by enforcing data quality, lineage, security and regulatory control as AI expands.
• Protect ROI by ensuring AI decisions are auditable, repeatable and aligned to business outcomes.
In short, AI growth without strong foundations amplifies risk, while strong foundations allow growth and risk reduction to advance in tandem. That’ s the shift leaders must make and where we at Kyndryl Consult create value.
• Converts security from reactive response to predictive resilience.
• Reduces human decision latency in highfrequency incidents.
• Creates consistency across fragmented hybrid and multi-cloud estates.
In other words, confidence improves not because attacks stop, but because impact becomes bounded
Kyndryl aims to build‘ trust’ into IT environments, making them‘ secure by design, resilient by default’. How does the Kyndryl Bridge platform enable this trustby-design approach across a complex, multicloud environment?
In a multi-cloud world,‘ secure by design’ is a continuous state rather than a design-time decision.