How to eliminate breaches of protection of business data

How do companies protect their data during smart working sessions?

We live in the era of digital transformation. Although all companies strive to optimize operations by adopting disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), IoT and robotics, the key to all these strategies is data. However, although they understand its importance, many companies are not aware of the precarious position they can find themselves in due to their infrastructure and data management.

When respondents in the EMEA area were asked what was the main challenge that will affect companies in the next twelve months, the most repeated responses related to problems related to cyber threats (31%), economic uncertainty (30% ) and the application of regulations (29%). In addition to these challenges, many companies have yet to resolve critical gaps in their data infrastructure. For example, almost two-thirds (65%) of companies in EMEA face what we call the ‘availability gap’. This is the time difference between how fast applications can recover and how fast they should.

When respondents were asked what might be causing the gaps to persist despite clearly being aware of the issues, nearly half (47%) in EMEA said that digital transformation was slowing down at the company due to Staff’s lack of IT skills and experience. Other barriers that have been identified are: dependence on traditional systems (39%); Limited budgets (29%); Lack of time (28%) and lack of commitment from senior managers (27%).