Like FMSI, respondents to the Small Business Pipeline survey appear well-prepared to deal with threats that could impact their corporate data. Three quarters of respondents say they have a specific medium or plan for protecting data in the event of a business or technology interruption. In a related finding, 62% of respondents say they have defined policies to secure the data on individual employees' computers.
Asked to identify their primary means of protecting data, 43% said they back up data to an off-site facility they own or manage; 28% said they back up data to servers or systems in the same office as primary systems; 20% said they back up data to a third-party facility, and 9% use another means.
Asked to rank technologies that are most important in preventing business interruptions, the most respondents 40%, selected network security products such as firewalls. Another 34% selected data backup and management.
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.
