Deviation standards help define the when, who and how of reacting to an emergency event.
"When" helps administrators and managers identify when a deviation is appropriate.
"Who" defines who can make the call to permit a deviation, and who should provide verbal approval from both business and technical perspectives.
"How" helps an entity determine which procedures are required before action is taken. Although the entity might be implementing changes in an emergency fashion, it doesn't mean that changes should be made ad hoc. It just means that the company is accepting more risk on the side of the change to prevent a potentially more costly result of not making the change fast enough.
Control elements that must go into a deviation standard include:
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
