1984 saw the foundation laid out for India’s digital transformation with IT and Telecom policy changes and an era of digital India emerged in the new world order. Soon with ITeS India became the backbone to the global IT needs. Today with more than 800 million internet users in India and being the second largest market in the world IT infrastructure, becomes the de facto backbone of every business and enterprise.
IT infrastructure became one critical component of doing business as well as to scale up growth and profitability. However, with the rapid transition to technology and the technology innovation trends became the biggest roadblocks for many enterprises. Such as many enterprises even today use older XP versions with CRT monitors or NT servers. This is creating legacy issues with many organizations as well as government bodies even today. Piracy and freeware are the other challenges, which are used to shortchange the IT infrastructures due to the Jugaad mindset of India.
We need to realize that technology is a self-cannibalizing innovation and with every six months, the technology is changing. The digital world needs to keep pace with the innovations and adoptions in businesses with the latest to stay safe. Along with the rapid changes in technology also another challenge crept up slowly but steadily to rise into a mammoth challenge in IT adoptions by businesses, IT Security. It is now we realize the challenges of IT security and the threat to data and risk to business disruptions. The recent attacks by Wanna cry ransomware are such an example, where the cyber attackers used the old OS exploits which were not updated, which in turn caused huge amounts of loss apart from crippling critical services and businesses.
Enterprises today are grappling with the security challenges faced by their growing networks, modernization, and consumerization of businesses. Where at one end they adopt new technology to empower their business but at other end the give least priority in terms of cost allocation for superior technology integration across board, thereby creating a bigger challenge for the CIOs to pick and choose priority wise requirements and thus creating a layered legacy IT infrastructure supporting critical business data and information. Such organizations become sitting ducks for the sophisticated and living at the edge of cybercriminals. They are more empowered with the latest technology to track and find loopholes faster than the developers themselves at times. This opens up the targeted cyber-attacks, DDoS, APTs as well as ransomware attacks to sabotage businesses and steal massive amounts of data for personal gains.
It is imperative that an enterprise today needs to look at IT infrastructure as one of its integral business success plans rather than looking at it in isolation. The embracing of the digital era also demands that organizations need to adopt modernization of their IT infrastructure with the latest technological solutions available across the board to create a secured business environment as well as protect their valuable data and reputation.
By 2020 when we are looking at SMAC and Automation as solutions driving business growth, the huge opportunity for IT security solutions becomes the cornerstone of IT infrastructure designs. Thus, by providing a huge opportunity to the channel partners to make it one of their key offering for their own business growth and profitability. With the emergence of mobility and consumerization of businesses, the time has come to relook at IT security as a successful service offering for enterprises.
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