Regulatory Minefield
Companies face a virtual alphabet soup of regulations, especially those designed to safeguard personally and sensitive identifiable information. The penalties for non-compliance can be extraordinary. Your customers want to deal with secure providers that treat their data with care and respect. Security and privacy can be a competitive advantage, not a burden to minimize.
Sarbanes-Oxley
The 2013 update to the Internal Control Integrated Framework, a cornerstone of Sarbanes-Oxley, put an emphasis on technology controls. Since the previous update 20 years earlier, companies had become highly interconnected with the rise of outsourced activities. CFOs, controllers, internal and external auditors, risk managers and others must now drive a substantially higher standard of IT housekeeping.
When an organization gets hit with a security breach, what does that say about the controls they had over data, arguably their most important asset? Considering the liabilities CEOs and CFOs face each time they sign their Section 404/302 certifications, the stakes for compliance have never been higher.
Transformation of IT
There are several powerful, transformative IT trends that require companies to think differently about the way they procure and manage technology. We can show you how you can immediately gain the visibility and control you need to deal with these, and other fundamental shifts in the way companies operate today.
Workloads moving from on-premises data centers to cloud-hosted infrastructure
Shift from use of licensed software to SaaS applications
Increasing use of mobile devices, including those owned by employees, and sensors
Consumerization of IT, resulting in higher employee expectations for the quality and speed of access to technology used in the enterprise
Increasing incidence rate and severity of data breaches.