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Are organizations prepared for the IT challenges that come hand in hand with 2022?

At the end of 2021, it only remains to face the challenges that 2022 brings. For this, IT leaders must carry out an analysis of everything that happened during 2021 in their department, with the focus of establishing new goals and objectives for this year.

In these last two years, the participation of the Information Technology departments has witnessed and assumed great challenges loaded with profound and global changes in the technological landscape, and that have been of great relevance in organizations, due to the appearance of the pandemic. of COVID-19.

Although it is true that as the pandemic transcended, the implementation of remote work occurred, this global crisis caused economic destabilization and unexpected interruptions of consolidated and solvent systems, which led to a large number of organizations cutting eventual expenses , in addition to altering some of the previously organized IT budget plans.

While the digital transformation accelerated significantly, implementing and adopting technologies that helped the continuity of IT processes and that in one way or another came to empower work performance remotely, making cybersecurity the most relevant protagonist in this new trend. Undoubtedly, for IT and IT security leaders, it is of great importance to know the main challenges and challenges that can be faced in 2022.

Challenges

Among the main challenges that organizations and their IT departments will face we have:

Security breaches.

An increase in cyberattacks against organizations is expected.

There is no doubt that attacks on cloud services, malware downloaded through software updates and attacks on organizational data are on the rise and are the biggest challenges facing leaders. IT that have to be prepared with preventive measures and advice to help you deal with this notorious event.

A recommendation from our specialists would be the implementation of more precise and formal processes that cover data security, including encryption and secure exchange. Taking into account which ones should be protected and which ones should not.

Price increases by software manufacturers.

It is a reported fact that software manufacturers make increases and adjustments in the prices of their licensing products.

For this, our experts recommend that IT leaders should order their licensing strategically, keeping control of the contracted licensing and its solvency. In addition to knowing in detail the agreements established between your licensing provider and your organization in order to negotiate according to them.

The foregoing are just some of the strategies that you can obtain with our advisors. If you want to know more strategies, contact one of our experts and guarantee your organization the best Savings options.

Migration to the cloud.

Migration to the cloud is one of the most complex processes that organizations have faced in recent years, and it is that its adoption has led to new work models. In addition to having to incentivize companies and IT departments to train new knowledge, since not only digital assets are transferred to the cloud, but also workloads, data and applications executed by companies, to a public or private cloud environment.

If you want to have the most viable option when migrating to the cloud, we invite you to see our article "Options to evaluate the migration to the Cloud"

One of the strategies or recommendations given by our experts for this point is to prioritize the validation of the options to be able to migrate safely, efficiently and optimally. It is vital to have a systematized and documented strategy.

At Licensing Assurance we have prepared this article in order to provide organizations with valuable knowledge with strategies and recommendations designed by our specialists that help IT and information security leaders to be prepared, have the tools and advice to support them in the management of the price increases of software providers, IT management for the processes and protection of their systems and in the face of any challenge or challenge that this 2022 brings.

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