3 Biggest IT Concerns Businesses Are Facing Today

The world of business IT is a constantly changing challenge that not everyone can appreciate. Major threats from last year could have been completely wiped out, while new threats may not have even existed 6 months ago. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of the 3 biggest IT concerns businesses are facing today to inform you, and hopefully give you an edge over the competition.

Security Threats

Security should be front and center in your organization’s mind as you develop your business IT structure. Every day new cyber security threats are evolving, with black hat and white hat hackers racing to find security exploits to either patch them out, or exploit them for profit. The threats of hackers and cyberattacks can’t even compare though to the number one security threat: Human Nature. Believe it or not, human nature plays a big part of cyber security and ignoring this makes a breach not a matter of if, but when. Keeping up with training, as well as educating and testing cyber security practices will continue to be one of the major IT concerns businesses will face today, and likely in the future. After all, it only takes a single weak password, downloading a single attachment, or a single person believing that their data isn’t important/doesn’t matter to completely compromise an entire business.

Digital Transformation

Let’s face facts: Businesses today are facing a much more rapidly evolving landscape than businesses 10 years ago. This transformation can be traced to a number of factors including shifting customer expectations, innovations in technology, and more. These next few years will be critical for the survival of businesses as they transform their businesses and rethink how technology will be used by themselves as well as the customers. If your business hasn’t started their digital transformation, then you need to start now or you will be left in the dust by your more nimble competition.

Skill Gaps

With business technology and processes constantly changing, more and more gaps in knowledge and experience are becoming evident in organisations at every level. These gaps lead to slowdowns, decline in product quality, wasted capital, and vulnerability to threats and the competition. While you can identify skill gaps in your company the complicated and ever changing world of IT means you may not even recognize the gaps that exist in your business before it’s too late.

These concerns, while generalized, are fairly universal across all industries. The constantly changing world of technology means that we foresee these issues becoming more important to every organization, not less.

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