Our president speaks out on 5 big challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2018:
“As an IT leader, I think the biggest challenge going into 2018 is how to successfully prepare for and defend against cybersecurity attacks while at the same time ensuring systems are fast and responsive to users’ needs,” says Bob Herman, Co-Founder & President of IT Tropolis. “We need to protect businesses in the cloud, at the network gateway and within the internal network. Many different approaches and services exist for protection. I think the trick is to design the appropriate defense based on the needs of each business, so while one design might be appropriate for Business A, that same design may handcuff users in Business B.”
See full article here: https://www.mrc-productivity.com/blog/2017/11/5-big-challenges-facing-cios-leaders-2018/
Data and security are the biggest challenges in my opinion. Every organization needs data to gather analytics from which they can find a customer usage pattern. And as they develop this asset, the need to protect it increases even more.
Hi Herbert:
Yes, 3 years later this is article on protecting against cyber attacks is as relevant as ever, e.g. the recent attacks on government agencies exploiting the SolarWinds Orion breach / vulnerability. Patch, patch, patch, and backup, backup, backup!
Thank you,
Bob