Imagine tomorrow, you walk into your office and turn on your computer only to find that you can't access anything. Your email is blocked, your files are blocked and you shortly realise that your business has been the victim of a cyberattack. What is the first course of action you take?
TAGS: it strategy, disaster recovery planning, leadership, business continuity planning, strategy, business
An annual IT strategy helps you to set your technology on the right course, and make your company goals a reality by aligning the two.
Business IT exists to support your business growth, it should be quietly ticking along in the background helping your team achieve success. Without an IT strategy, it's easy for your technology suite to become messy, complicated and create more problems than it solves.
Having a good IT strategy mapped out will help you and your team stay on course, building the right technology stack that will complement and align with your business goals.
TAGS: it strategy, leadership, business continuity planning, strategy, business
Remember when you were a kid and you sat on your parent’s lap and tried steering the car, usually in the driveway or car park? Maybe not, that could have just been my era. However, you get the picture, it was (relatively) safe because you were moving slowly.
TAGS: employee engagement, leadership, culture, powernet, management, strategy
Once you know your core values, you have a narrative accompanying them and perhaps, most importantly, you live by them within your organisation. This is why recruiting based on value alignment is critical.
TAGS: leadership, culture, powernet, employees, recruitment
Now that we’ve reached the end of this four-part series on Australia's new data breach notification laws, the only thing left to do is to tie it all together: which means getting started on building a better, stronger business that is better able to counter cybersecurity risks as much as possible.
TAGS: it strategy, it security, cyber security, disaster recovery planning, leadership, IT systems, legislation, business continuity planning, risk, notifiable data breaches scheme
Now that you're aware of what the data breach laws mean and how to protect your business, it's time to focus on arguably the most important cybersecurity task: developing a data breach response plan for when that terrible day finally arrives.
TAGS: it strategy, it security, cyber security, disaster recovery planning, leadership, IT systems, legislation, business continuity planning, risk, notifiable data breaches scheme
We've discussed what the notifiable data breach laws entail, why they exist, and why they'll be so important to both businesses and private citizens across the country moving forward. But to put it simply, no single mitigation strategy is guaranteed to A) apply to every type of business, or B) prevent every type of cybersecurity incident that you may encounter.
TAGS: it strategy, it security, cyber security, disaster recovery planning, leadership, IT systems, legislation, business continuity planning, risk, notifiable data breaches scheme
It's official: the February 22, 2018 deadline has come and gone and Australia's new data breach notification laws are now in full effect. If you still feel unsure about what these new laws entail, or if you were only scarcely aware that they existed in the first place, don't worry — it’s not too late to be informed.
TAGS: it strategy, it security, cyber security, disaster recovery planning, leadership, IT systems, legislation, business continuity planning, risk, notifiable data breaches scheme
Even the most powerful technology platform that money can buy is ultimately still just that — a platform. It's a tool and how you use that tool is all that matters. When leveraged correctly, IT budgets are more than just a roadmap for investment in technology — they're an investment in the future of your organisation that guarantees these assets are properly aligned with your long-term goals.
TAGS: it strategy, it budgeting, leadership, hybrid cloud, hybrid IT, in-house, outsourced
In many ways, the ultimate success of any organisation is dictated by the ability of its leaders to make the right decision at exactly the right time. Every action that an organisation takes as a collective must be examined both in terms of its immediate effect and its role in the overall strategy that continues to play out, day after day.
TAGS: it strategy, leadership, IT systems
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