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Today’s 7 IT biggest issues faces by Technology Leaders
- By Elite CIO
Feb 27, 2019
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From securing IoT to retraining IT talent to finding new revenue streams, CIOs have more than their share of concerns keeping them up at night.
CIOs are more concerned with how to protect that data with new privacy regulations.
As economy growing, CIOs are less hindered in 2019 by shrinking budgets and worries about moving to the cloud are less of an issue as many companies have already made the jump. Executives put more emphasis now on securing their cloud-based assets across multiple cloud environments.
1. New security threats
Tech leaders are gearing-up for next-generation, AI-driven cyber attacks. Security professionals must be extra vigilant with detection and training against these threats. Security companies will need to introduce AI-based protection systems to be able to contain any such attacks introduced by this next-gen tech. 2019 will bring many AI-driven attacks on companies, critical infrastructure.
2. Data protection
Organizations are now implementing privacy by design in their products, but making sure those efforts meet GDPR and proposed Indian Data protection law standards is an ongoing concern.
3. Skills gap
More than hundreds of our Elite CIOs mentioned that there is a big skill gap in IT.
4. Multi-cloud security
When exploring new cloud-based services, Elite CIOs now need to ask about security across multiple platforms.
5. Innovation and digital transformation
Now a days, about two-thirds of Elite CIOs think their companies need to speed up their digital transformation or face losing ground to competitors.
6. Outsourcing risks
The skills gap will lead many organizations to seek outside help. But these sometimes-necessary solutions can lead to concerns with reliability, security, quality concerns. Outsourcing opens up security threats that are well known. The specific threats for Elite CIOs that should be top of mind are the insider and the contractor.
7. Rebuilding trust
Issues such as privacy, security and device addiction must be addressed immediately by big and small players in the industry to rebuild trust between vendor and customer / end user.
Author - Atul Bansal, Gateway Rail