IT teams have become more important than ever

The last year has been a challenging one for UK businesses on multiple fronts and these difficulties have emphasized the importance of IT teams. This is according to a new report from low-code application development company Mendix, which claims that both Brexit and Covid-19 placed immense pressure on businesses, forcing them to radically change the way they operate. For two …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

Cybersecurity responsibility increasingly shifting to in-house legal teams

Here’s an interesting side-effect of the pandemic and transition to remote working: cybersecurity is increasingly becoming the responsibility of in-house legal teams. According to a new report, recently released by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Exterro, cybersecurity has now overtaken compliance as the most important business issue among Chief Legal Officers (CLO). Polling 1,000 CLOs across 21 industry …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

Disconnect between staff and IT teams is hindering productivity

IT departments have not always seen eye-to-eye with the wider workforce, but since the Covid-19 pandemic began, physical separation has only made the problem worse. According to a new report from endpoint management firm 1E, the average IT department is clueless as to what the remote working experience for the average employee actually looks like. IT pros are overestimating employee …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

Pressure on IT teams is pushing many decision-makers to burnout

IT teams are feeling the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic and many are on the brink of burnout. This is according to a new report from UK regional datacenter and cloud infrastructure services provider Pulsant. With Covid-19 relentlessly forcing businesses into further digitizing their operations, management is pushing IT decision-makers to their limits, in a bid to stay operational and …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

IT teams need to work closer together than ever before

Businesses whose IT teams communicate better, especially during turbulent periods, perform far better than those that struggle to collaborate internally. This is according to a new report from SolarWinds, which claims IT teams need to work closer than ever before if they are to help their organizations move through the pandemic. According to the report, businesses are faced with “new …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

Quarter of workers will suffer in silence rather than contact tech support teams

Remote workers in the UK would rather suffer in silence than reach out to their IT department for help, a new report from NetMotion claims.  According to the company’s figures, two thirds of remote workers (66 percent) reported encountering an IT issue so far during the pandemic. Of these, more than half (57.5 percent) decided not to share their issues …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

Security teams are struggling to curb employees’ risky work behaviors online

Warnings from security experts about the myriad of threats lurking online have fallen on deaf ears, as the majority of employees are still actively engaged in unsafe and unproductive web activity when they should be working. This is according to a new report from Censornet, based on a poll of 300 cybersecurity pros, which states that two thirds (67 percent) …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

IT teams asked to do more with less as business priorities shift

The majority of IT teams are being pushed to implement new services and systems despite a drop in resources, new research has claimed. A survey from Apptio has found that nearly two-thirds of IT leaders (63%) were being asked to implement new services and computing capabilities.  The study found 72% of CIOs say the disruption caused by COVID-19 has changed …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez

Lockdown increased risks as security teams shrank

The Covid-19 health crisis has exacerbated the cybersecurity problems businesses in the UK and the US were already facing. According to a new report from Exabeam, based on a poll of more than 1,000 IT security professionals, organizations were forced to cut IT security staff to survive the pandemic. Fewer workers in the IT security sector, however, meant greater risk …

Tovább a bejegyzéshez