Technology Trends Effecting Business Continuity
Posted on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 @ 09:30 AM
From Continuity Central, Martin Kuppinger takes a look at the trends in technology that business continuity manager should follow.
Cloud Computing
- Top IT topic for organizations through 2011
- Slow emergence of standards
- Support of standards will be the key for success
- Server, storage, desktop and application virtualization will lead to data sprawl
- Security will remain chief obstacle for adoption
- Externalized security services lead to greater efficiency but new risks
- Cloud providers will focus on integrated business solutions
- Encrypted storage
- Identity-based encryption
- Standardized solutions involving a mix of manual and automated controls
- Information security will be seen as a must in every industry
Information Security
- Focus of IT to shift from securing technology to securing information
- Increased demand for stronger controls and solutions to prevent data leakage
- Protection via information classification
- More secure application development from externalizing security as a service
- Increased acceptance for more flexible architectures
- Versatile authentication increasingly adopted
Service Management
- Driven by business, not technology
- Increased demand for IT to provide solid planning and accounting of services
Mobile Devices
- Mobile computing increasingly a focus for security
- Users demand their own devices
- New threats from devices not fully under IT's control
- Increase in the number of different devices used
- Information security increasingly a critical success factor for business
- Information security risk awareness will raise the pressure in other industries
- Slow evolution of built-in security technology in mobile devices
- Increasing number of security apps, though most are likely to fail
- Real security must happen at the kernel level of devices
- All non-Blackberry platforms will become targets for attackers, especially Android
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