In today’s complex, always-on business world, your customers’ business resilience depends on achieving and sustaining IT resilience. This means ensuring continuous availability of all business processes, workflows, technologies, and policies regardless of where your customers’ IT environments reside, what’s in them, or how they change over time.
Lurking behind many downtime incidents are mundane causes – a failed UPS, human error, a malfunctioning component.
But increasingly, your clients will discover downtime causes stemming from a class of culprits best characterized as IT complexity.
Veterans can sometimes be like cross-fitters and vegans-if you haven’t figured out who they are in the first five minutes of speaking with them, they will most likely tell you within the next five minutes of your conversation. Take me for instance, I’m a clean-eating combat veteran with a respectable 4-minute Fran time myself. See what I did there? I hope you’ll give me a pass.
In my previous post, I pointed to several top security threats your clients face in attempting to protect their data and systems.
Cyberthreats like app attacks, web attacks, social engineering exploits, and ransomware are only a few of your customers’ concerns. They must also (or will soon) contend with breaches that steal or corrupt huge swaths of “big data,” the risks of trusting IoT (Internet of Things) devices and sensors , and the dangerous vulnerabilities of industrial control systems .
Security vulnerabilities tend to stick around. SQL injection, for instance, has been a popular means of exploiting databases for years and remains a significant cyber threat.
As we respond by adapting and fortifying our security defenses, however, cyberattack targets tend to shift — so it’s essential to understand the ever-changing nature of your clients’ risk landscape .
These days, your clients need to be aware of several ways that cybercriminals are likely to threaten their operations:
Much of the appeal of cloud services lies in their ability to mask the complexity of the information technologies we all depend on.
Thus, as your clients’ employees sign on to public clouds, their IT staffs must respond with hybrid cloud solutions that address the resulting shadow IT, security, and compliance issues.
