ESG White Paper: Storage’s Role in Addressing the Challenges of Ensuring Cyber Resilience
IT faces new challenges. Nearly half (46%) of ESG survey respondents say IT is more complex today than it was two years ago. This increase in complexity may be the result of ongoing digital transformation initiatives (cited by 29%), higher data volumes (35%), the rapid evolution of the cybersecurity landscape (37%), and/or efforts to adhere to new data security and privacy regulations (32%).
Simultaneously, organizations are struggling to address a problematic shortage of critical IT skills. In fact, 48% of surveyed organizations report they don’t have enough cybersecurity specialists—it was the most often-cited shortage area.Additionally, these organizations are dealing with application, device, and remote/mobile worker sprawl, which are increasing the size and scope of the security perimeter that IT is tasked with protecting

