Gartner Inc. predicted that by 2023, CIOs would be responsible for over 3x the endpoints for which they were responsible in 2018 due to the rapid evolution of IoT trends and technologies! With billions of physical devices worldwide connected to the internet today, this prediction is on its way to coming true. However, the rapid evolution of IoT technology has proven to be a double-edged sword from a cybersecurity and compliance standpoint.

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Regardless of the size of your supply chain, you must ensure that it isn’t the reason your organization is non-compliant with the necessary regulations and standards. Yes, it involves a great deal of continued effort, but it’s worth it. If your organization is found to be non-compliant due to compliance risks thriving within your supply chain, you will find yourself facing financial losses, loss of reputation, expensive lawsuits and a lot more. No regulator will cut you any slack for ‘not being aware’ of prevailing or imminent risks.

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By adopting a “Compliance First” strategy, when choosing solutions and vendors, you will identify those that do not comply with your requirements, eliminate them from your selection process, and then select from the rest. It also means evaluating your current solutions and vendors and replacing those that cannot support your compliance requirements.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone in one way or another. If there is one category that most benefited from the pandemic, it’s cybercriminals. That’s why cybercrime has shot up by almost 300% since the start of the pandemic¹ and that’s why you must adopt necessary measures to protect your organization from malicious cyber players. One of these measures is to have Cyber Liability Insurance (CLI).

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UPDATED 7/12/21

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If you think that your cyber insurance claim will be cleared with no questions asked, think again. While reviewing your claim, your cyber insurance provider will assess whether you took “due care” to protect your business from being compromised by a cyberattack. While having a cyber liability insurance policy is non-negotiable today, you cannot be fully assured that your insurer will cover any of the costs you incur following a security breach.

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Many of you have noted that on-premises hosted workloads have become the most significant barriers to working from home. Large enterprise customers have been able to more quickly adapt an effective WFH strategy thanks to an aggressive approach to hybrid cloud (the percentage of investments in the cloud versus on-premises). As a result, we’re seeing customers setting more aggressive and aspirational plans going forward - instead of a 30-50% cloud/70%-50% on-premises goal in 10 years, they now have a goal of 60% cloud/40% on-premises in just 5 years.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has created an immediate need for Work from Home (WFH) solutions. Many of you have implemented “quick fix” solutions to allow remote access to your data centers and/or expanded your use of cloud solutions. These approaches often aren’t optimum or intuitive for end users, creating an additional burden on IT staff to facilitate use and adoption.

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During these challenging times, we take seriously our responsibility to help organizations like yours make better use of technology to ensure operational continuity. So, we are doing everything we can to balance a healthy concern for the welfare of our employees with the urgent need of essential public-sector and commercial customers, including:

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We are talking with a growing number of customers who, out of an abundance of caution, are developing contingency plans for working and learning from home due to Coronavirus concerns. There are several options available to support your contingency planning around Covid-19 depending on your IT environment. Here are three:

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