Thousands of companies, and an increasing number of government agencies, are relying on managed service providers for products like cloud storage, security administration, and productivity technologies. This has put tech experts in the profitable and challenging position of providing innovative products to support their clients.
The need for a business continuity plan is becoming more critical as businesses adjust to disruptions caused by the coronavirus.
A virus in and of itself can’t shut your company’s systems, operations, or services down, but it can impact how a business functions. It’s not often that businesses face a pandemic. Still, natural disasters, human-made disasters, security threats (such as a malware attack), and an outage are a reality. If businesses want to ensure a smooth recovery process and continuity of operations, they must do a risk assessment and develop a recovery services strategy with disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
For many businesses today, the severe lack of a skilled Cybersecurity workforce is becoming clearly evident on a daily basis. Just consider some of these statistics:
It should be noted that the Cybersecurity workforce shortage is a global trend that is occurring not just here in the United States, but on a global basis as well. This is illustrated in the diagram below: