On 24 October 2019, a day that coincided with ISACA’s 5th anniversary, Phil Zongo, Cyber Resilience Director, was featured at as keynote speaker at the ISACA Zimbabwe Annual Conference. His address, titled Cyber Resilience in a hyperconnected world, explored the double-edged nature of digital transformation. While the benefits afforded by emerging technologies – AI, blockchain, cloud, big data etc. – are indisputable, these technologies are also widening the cyber attack surface, creating material security and privacy risks that can no longer be ignored.