These are challenging times to be a CIO. It was all talk about digital transformation to drive post-pandemic business recovery a few months ago. Now, the goalposts have shifted thanks to rising inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and the Great Resignation. Meeting these challenges requires IT leaders to ruthlessly prioritize: taking action to mitigate escalating cyber and compliance risks by managing their attack surface more effectively amidst continued skills shortages.
For many, the key lies in choosing the right platform to drive visibility and control across the endpoint estate.
The ever-growing attack surface
That pandemic-era digital spending was certainly necessary to support hybrid working, drive process efficiencies and create new customer experiences. But it also left behind an unwelcomed legacy as corporate attack surfaces expanded significantly.
An explosion in potentially unmanaged home working endpoints and distributed cloud assets have added opacity at a time when CIOs desperately need visibility. Two-fifths of global organizations admit that their digital attack surface is “spiraling out of control.” Some organizations also exacerbate…