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CIO Responsibilities Focused on Recovery |
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CIOs have three major responsibilities in helping enterprises
succeed during the recovery:
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CIOs must keep all IT systems
and networks managed, optimized,
and available to contribute
maximum business value at
minimal cost.
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CIOs need to protect critical
infrastructure against an
increasingly hostile threat
environment spyware, viruses,
attacks, intrusions and
human-engineered security
lapses.
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CIOs must prevent exposure to
legal and regulatory compliance
penalties or breach disclosure
laws. If IT fails in any one of
these areas, their organizations
can go out of business, or face
criminal sanctions.
In meeting these responsibilities, CIOs can no longer
incrementally buy new tools to meet
any new requirement that makes
headlines in the technical or
business media. Business drivers,
security and compliance mandates
converging on the enterprise require
a converged response.
 CIOs
need solutions that enable them to
eliminate redundant technologies and
processes and integrate disparate
elements into a common workflow. At
the same time software vendors have
adopted the language of convergence
and consolidation, their product
lines remain constrained by legacy
architectures and designs.
The challenge faced by CIOs is that
they can not propose any changes to
their user base that carries the
risk of disrupting established
revenue flows not to mention
technical risks inherent in
overhauling or replacing obsolete
products.
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Internal Staff Account for Over One Third of
All Data Losses |
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Over one-third of data loss incidents are caused by human error. A
human flipped the wrong switch, bumped into
or spilled something, tripped over a power
cord, dislodged or miss-routed an equipment
cable, touched a sensitive component while
carrying a static charge - or otherwise
misused the equipment. And that's just the
accidental incidents. What about intentional
misuse of equipment - and theft? Today's
high-dollar servers are so compact that they
could be removed from the building in a
briefcase. When you consider the magnitude
of the IT investment, and the value of the
data and applications that ride on it, you
can appreciate the critical importance of
protecting it from unauthorized access.
Diversified access-control policies and
procedures enable you to manage access at
the level of function and/or individual.
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