Data’s role as a transformational business asset continues to grow. Thanks to increasing investments in application development; modern DevOps practices; and heightened business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning demands, nearly all businesses are accelerating data creation and usage. They are also scaling the number of locations that leverage data. This proliferation of data combined with mounting pressure to accelerate operations has led to an increase in the complexity of both IT infrastructure and IT operations.
Such factors put organizations and their infrastructures at great risk of experiencing malicious attacks, human error, and negligent behavior. Unfortunately, legacy strategies cannot adequately ensure that business operations will continue during and after these types of incidents. Companies can try to weave together capabilities in an attempt to prevent attacks and other breaches, but functional gaps, poor integration, and management complexity make meeting security objectives time-consuming and difficult
Changing organizational mindsets from prevention to incident preparation—e.g., implementing storage solutions with built-in cyber resilience—is key to safeguarding critical data assets and being able to quickly respond to and recover from ransomware and other cyberattacks.
IT faces new challenges. Nearly half (46%) of ESG survey respondents say IT is more complex today than it was two years ago. This increase in complexity may be the result of ongoing digital transformation initiatives (cited by 29%), higher data volumes (35%), the rapid evolution of the cybersecurity landscape (37%), and/or efforts to adhere to new data security and privacy regulations (32%).
Simultaneously, organizations are struggling to address a problematic shortage of critical IT skills. In fact, 48% of surveyed organizations report they don’t have enough cybersecurity specialists—it was the most often-cited shortage area. Additionally, these organizations are dealing with application, device, and remote/mobile worker sprawl, which are increasing the size and scope of the security perimeter that IT is tasked with protecting.
Simultaneously, organizations are struggling to address a problematic shortage of critical IT skills. In fact, 48% of surveyed organizations report they don’t have enough cybersecurity specialists—it was the most often-cited shortage area. Additionally, these organizations are dealing with application, device, and remote/mobile worker sprawl, which are increasing the size and scope of the security perimeter that IT is tasked with protecting.
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