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The pandemic boosted digital transformation signifcantly, with the market size estimated to reach $1 759.4 billion by 2028, according to a new report by Grand View Research. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 23.6% over the forecast period.

“Digital transformation is probably one of the biggest trends ever witnessed in IT,” says Alain Sanchez, EMEA CISO, and senior evangelist at Fortinet. “This transformation embraced various disciplines, from data analytics to mobile applications, process automation, blockchain, and public cloud, to name a few.”