Towards secured digital business ecosystems: From threats to opportunities

Abstract

This study aims at shedding more light on the values of the security landscape in the age of rapid digital businesses ecosystems development. The purpose of the paper is to enrich existing theoretical funds by providing a deeper and extended perspective on building secured digital business ecosystems, based on secondary data collection. The paper illuminates security gaps and emphasizes opportunities to effectively shift threats to sustainable value creation. Future research and management framework rely heavily on a switch from push-based to pull-based security ecosystem, protection strategies development, adoption of AI against cyber risks, and security culture development. The transformative journey towards long-term wellbeing to stakeholders included in the secured digital business ecosystems significantly lies in the multidisciplinary knowledge, simultaneous effectiveness of strategic change, and security management on one hand, and efficiency of IT and organizational capabilities, on the other. The article may contribute to academics, business owners, shareholders, strategic change, security, innovation, and IT management.