Global supply chains are constantly exposed to risk, ranging from disruptions of continuity to various levels of operational destruction. Risks can include weather, significant cost variances, resource availability, legislative/tax changes, logistical disruption, power outages and health epidemics, and usually occur without warning. Most supply chain management functions, even in the most advanced companies, are ill-equipped to address the wide range of risks they’re exposed to. Whether company is a manufacturer of raw materials, finished goods or a supplier of services, every aspect of an organization’s supply chain is exposed to increasing types and levels of risk.…
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Beef Up Your Data Protection Strategy to Match Business Needs
Events such as the 9/11 attacks and the tsunami in Japan have caused many organizations to reassess their overall data protection strategies for data backup and recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as long-term retention and security of their data. However, most business downtime is caused not by catastrophic events or major natural disasters but by hardware failures, data loss, power outages or UPS failures, network outages, security breaches, human error and application failures.…
New Tools Available through Cloud Security Alliance Membership
Earlier this month, ISG joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate member. Here’s a description of this organization:
“The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing.…
Security vs. Flexibility: Finding the Middle Ground for Offshore Captive Delivery Operations
An offshore risk mitigation strategy is essential to achieve the intended objectives of a captive delivery operation’s security program without compromising the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the parent company’s information. Many parents treat their offshore captives as extensions of their business units, rather than just secluded offshore units, and expect the captives to guarantee the same level of security controls and flexibility as the parents.…
Middle Market Focus: The Journey from Managed Service to the Public Cloud
It’s clear that many organizations with managed infrastructure service agreements are taking a long, hard look at new vendor-hosted cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. Promises of faster, cheaper and more flexible are hard to ignore. In fact, when TPI surveyed its clients about which cloud-related services they were evaluating, four of the top five areas were related to IaaS, including virtualization, storage and computing services.…
Move Beyond Basic Security by Addressing Today’s Risk Factors
by Indy Banerjee, Partner, TPI India
Assessing and managing risk comprehensively is the cornerstone of a successful offshoring program. Moving beyond basic security particularly important given the breadth and scale of current global sourcing initiatives that expose businesses to multiple levels of systemic and operational failure. The concern is amplified by the level of sensitive and confidential data and intellectual property accessible to offshore operations, especially in highly regulated verticals such as healthcare and banking.
Organizations that have extensive sourcing programs with multiple delivery channels must take into account their overall risk exposure from the very beginning.…
Lost in the Cloud
The security of stored data is often cited as one of the key obstacles to organizations adopting Cloud Computing. To be sure, the risks are high if a company’s customer records are compromised as a result of being in an unsecure Cloud environment. That issue is enough to give even the most maverick CIOs pause as they consider their technology plans in the coming years.…
Unto the (Data) Breach: A 2008 Topic
industry, and I expect the issue to get a real workout in 2008.
Which is fine. But first a couple of points: From the
earliest days of outsourcing there have always been third parties involved in
processing client information. More to the point, data breaches can and do
happen with in-house operations, too.…
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