Despite occasional arguments that the U.S. IT talent gap is a myth , plenty of evidence (see my last post) points to what appears, in fact, to be a rather significant IT talent gap that’s particularly wide in cybersecurity , cloud computing , big data, analytics, and information management .
For a while now, organizations large and small have struggled to find and retain the IT skillsets they need. Two years have passed since Gartner noted , “Talent has now been recognized globally as the single biggest issue standing in the way of CIOs achieving their objectives.”
If your experience suggests the IT talent gap has intensified since 2016, you’re not alone. Among North American IT decision-makers, 75% say they face a skills shortage , and few expect it to ease over the next two years.
When it comes to risk management, best practices begin with best strategies:
1 Take the time to realistically assess your enterprise’s vulnerabilities
In one recent survey , increased reliance on technology itself and increasing business complexity ranked second and fourth as drivers of increased risk.
Businesses have always faced risks. In the 1920s, shopkeepers in small Midwestern towns were issued surplus World War I rifles so they could run into the street and shoot skedaddling bank robbers.
But risks evolve, as do the ways any given risk may impact your business.
In my last post, I listed two of the six ways the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can affect even non-EU enterprises—by …
Reaching beyond the EU; and
Redefining personal and sensitive data.Here are four more reasons you can’t afford to ignore GDPR:
I’m here to ping you about GDPR .
That’s the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation — due to take effect on May 25. If this sounds like just another set of data privacy rules that someone else, not you, has to worry about — don’t be fooled.
