New Year's Resolutions to Reduce Business Risks
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Protect the Mobile Front
Tech is going mobile, which means adversaries are too. Because your BYOD users access the enterprise all the time, you'll need to increase vigilance. -
Use Security Experts
With tasks like malware detection, event analysis, etc., getting farmed out to the cloud, top security talent can focus on the toughest threats while improving internal intelligence. -
Ramp Up for the Internet of Things
There will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, so start working on governance policies for these devices, many of which are invisible to users. -
Watch Out for Hacktivists
These attackers have vendettas against corporations and governments, and will unleash destructive DDOS attacks to make a statement. -
Prepare for a Privacy Balancing Act
IT will have to accommodate both those who have minimal privacy expectations and those who view their personal data as currency and want to control how it's spent. -
Bring Big Data Down to Size
Explosive, unmanageable data creates costly redundancies and is difficult to secure. Tech pros must help eliminate excess data and consolidate what remains. -
Step Up Recruitment
Professionals with cyber-security and analytics specialties will be in big demand, so offer competitive compensation packages, job descriptions and working environments. -
Support Standardization Efforts
Business and government must work together to develop high standards of protection to counter the most determined efforts of the bad guys.
IT and cyber-security professionals will face an abundance of perplexing challenges this year. For one thing, big data threatens to overwhelm the enterprise. For another, highly skilled hacktivists are gunning for companies, and they are fueled by passion instead of financial considerations. Finally, the booming state of device connectivity—mobile and otherwise—will further elevate the labyrinthine quality of modern IT networks. Given this, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) has come up with the following risk-related New Year's resolutions for its members, who are business and technology leaders striving to maximize IT's value and manage its risks. "The pace of change expected in 2014 will put incredible pressure on technology professionals in the workplace," says Bhavesh Bhagat, CEO of EnCrisp and a member of ISACA's new Emerging Business and Technology Committee. They will need to keep "IT risk in check while delivering value to the business. But this is also a chance for the IT department to be a strategic partner with the business on navigating these issues and opportunities."