Current networks are designed to leave sensitive content scattered throughout a company’s infrastructure and beyond the control of network administrators.

Future networks must manage the exchange of content and the access of that content.

New regulations are breeding an entirely new issue C-Level executives and network administrators must consider: corporate governance.  Although it is not a new topic, it has taken on a whole new significance in recent years.  Public corporations have become much more common and shareholders are more savvy demanding more consequences for inefficiences in management.  After the collapse of some well known corporate giants, companies are learning that the trust of their customers, employees and stakeholders can take years to win and only minutes to lose.

Technology creates an opportunity to gain the trust of those you seek but can also “bite the hand that feeds it”.  The same technologies - email, instant messaging, compliance control, virus protection, network efficiency - can also create enormous risk if poorly implemented or mismanaged. 

“Ultimately, information security is not soley a technical issue, but a corporate governance challenge,” a recent Business Software Alliance report found. “While there is broad consensus on the actions needed to create strong security, too often responsibility is left to the chief information officer or the chief information security officer. In fact, strong security requires the active engagement of executive management. By treating these challenges as a governance issue and defining specific tasks that employees at all levels of an organization can discharge, enterprises can begin to create a management framework that will lead to positive results.”

The report went on to report that CIOs may “suffer conflicting demands with regard to IT functionality and may not be in a position to leverage the resources and authority necessary to address the problem across multiple business lines or divisions.” 

Need help? Digital Reach can help you meet these new levels of data and network security requirements without putting additional strains and workloads on your network engineers and administrators.