As the holidays approach, lots of organizations are planning for downtime. And often those plans include hiring outside help.
That help could exact a high price for some IT professionals.
Hiring contractors and other temporary workers heightens security risk. At least two of the most
memorable data protection disasters of recent memory were attributable to errors made by hired hands.
It was a 22-year-old intern for the state of Ohio who lost sensitive data on over 1 million people while helping out on a database project.
An outside auditor compromised data on thousands of McAfee employees when a disk was left with a bunch of music CDs in the back pocket of an airplane seat.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
