Digital Transformation: Remove the pain in change
As the rate of digital transformation continues to accelerate across the country, businesses risk falling behind if they don’t keep up. Emergent trends for this year include increased support for agile working, and the ability to adopt Cloud-based technology to facilitate digital transformation.
There are multiple challenges to the non-disruptive rollout of Cloud-based technology, but two main factors are infrastructure capability and the increased risk of a dispersed digital estate.
IT Infrastructure
As the rate of digital transformation continues to accelerate, your IT infrastructure itself has to evolve. It can no longer afford to be static and must instead be robust and scalable to cope with any emerging trends. It also needs to support several core technologies which are key drivers of digital transformation. These include Cloud solutions with the ability to rapidly scale with the needs of your business, and the infinite means by which your users connect to your network and the outside world.
As your infrastructure expands and becomes increasingly complex, so does its management and the security implications. Additional resources must be allocated for this purpose, or there’s a danger of both critical failures within the infrastructure itself, and successful attacks upon it.
Proactive cybersecurity
As a result of moving into the Cloud and the new digital age, you increase the size of your digital footprint. This means heightened risk not only through a larger number of vulnerable resources, but also additional points at which they could be accessed. Your cybersecurity measures must keep pace with this expansion and be adaptable to more sophisticated threats.
It’s predicted that ransomware attacks will become increasingly common in 2024. Alongside this, a recent Forbes article highlights that there is a new trend which makes these malicious activities even more of a threat.
The rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning is proving a boon for organisations across the world, but as with any new technology, there is another side to the coin. Forbes is predicting that cybercriminals will utilise these advancements to make their attacks both more sophisticated and adaptive going forward. As such, defending your growing digital estate will require a far more proactive response then just relying on typical anti-virus software.
A new solution
Rather than facing the challenges of digital transformation internally, many businesses are turning to managed IT service providers to outsource infrastructure management and deescalate risk. Not only does this approach often incorporate proactive cybersecurity, it’s also reliable, flexible and cost-effective, making it suitable for companies of all sizes.
What is managed IT?
Managed IT is an outsourced, fully managed IT department with the ability to scale with your requirements. SCG’s managed IT solution includes:
• Unlimited access to our IT help desk
• A proactive approach to cybersecurity and awareness of live Threat Alerts; we will provide a safe pair of hands a mitigate any risk, should the worst happen
• Disaster recovery and rapid restore
• Reporting on networked devices such as security and patch management
• Scalability to adapt to both business size and requirements
Removing the pain in change
SCG remove the pain in change. We work in collaboration with your business, understanding your needs, and putting a managed IT solution in place to support your digital transformation whilst lightening the workload and reducing risk. Contact us today