Organizational and IT changes, hackers, and much more present information security leaders with what sometimes seems like an insurmountable challenge: how to manage the risks their systems face in a cost-effective manner.
A comprehensive approach that assesses the organization's expectations and obligations for the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical systems and data; current and future program capabilities; and budget and human resource constraints is needed to ensure that expectations can be met - or re-aligned, where necessary.
This action underscores the need for a scalable and iterative approach to designing, executing, maintaining, and communicating an effective and defensible information security strategy.
Over the past two decades, the project management industry has become increasingly rife with best practices and formal frameworks for achieving project success. However, this proliferation hasn't changed the fact that most organizations continue to struggle at projects. Indeed, statistics around project failure-especially IT projects-have remained consistently high since at least the mid-1990s, a time that coincides with the rise of the best practices' industry itself.
While it's important that best practices be understood, it's equally true that best practices aren't always the best fit. These frameworks commonly set unrealistic expectations for resource-constrained IT departments, and in their clinical approach, fail to address the day-to-day challenges that project managers face on the front lines.
In my experience, I've found that a right-sized approach to your project management processes works best. Take what you need from those formal frameworks, and then tailor a process that's going to work for your organization and for the variety of projects that come your way.
Incident response is the ER in the delivery of IT medical care. It is immediate, it can be chaotic, it is disruptive, and it is highly expensive. This is no time to be short on resources, confused about priorities, escalation, lines of communication, or who has responsibility to initiate extraordinary measures. Only through extensive and proper preparatory work can you maximize your chances of saving the patient.
With the occurrence of every incident there exists an opportunity to identify a problem. Understanding and correcting these underlying conditions is a parallel but distinctly separate activity. One that has different priorities, needs different information, and is methodical work. But one that is no less vital to the health of the business.
Our research helps you prepare for inevitable occurrence of incidents but, more importantly, it allows you to develop an active problem management process that in turn will decrease the number, severity, and time to resolution of those incidents. Let us help you turn disruption and chaos into planned work, optimizing the utilization of some of your highest paid resources.
Asset management is like exercise : everyone is aware of the benefits, but many struggle to get started because the process seems daunting. Others fail to recognize the intergrative potential that asset management offers once an effective program has been implemented.
A proper asset management program will allow your organization to cut spending, eliminate wasteful hardware and software, and improve your organizational security. More data will lead to better business decisions made across the organization.
As your program matures and your data gathering and utility improves, other areas of your company will experiences similar improvements. The true value of aseet management comes from the rising tide of improved IT services built upon the foundation of a proactive asset management program.
DevOps is a software development approach that combines software development and IT operations to streamline the software delivery process. It focuses on collaboration, communication, and automation to ensure that software applications are developed and delivered efficiently, reliably, and at a faster pace.
The term DevOps is a combination of two words, "development" and "operations." It originated from the need for a more efficient and agile software development process, where software development teams and IT operations teams work together to create a seamless software delivery pipeline.
The key benefits of DevOps include faster time to market, higher quality software, improved collaboration and communication between teams, and greater agility and flexibility in the software development process. DevOps has become a crucial aspect of modern software development, and many organizations are adopting it to stay competitive in today's fast-paced business environment.
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