Hello Florida and everybody else out there that may be watching. Kevin Baylor, CTO of Alliance IT. I hope everyone is having a great week, enjoying the beautiful weather or if you don’t have beautiful weather, sorry. Not too bad here in sunny Florida.
I wanted to take a few moments here and kind of extend into part two of what we’ve started previously, and what I like to call our little “seaside chats,” some topics and short discussions focused on the C-level folks out there.
Again whether you’re a CEO, CIO, CTO, CFO or the infamous COA, chief of all, we know that 2019 is well on its way and if you haven’t done any planning for this year in technology, I’m sure you may be scrambling to see what needs to be done this year.
This year has kind of become the year of upgrades and security. You know, with Windows 7 and Server 2008 expiring in January of 2020 and some of the new technologies on the front, there’s a lot of upgrades going on this year.
In addition to those upgrades, someone coming to play, just do the OS or hardware, but a lot also as you’ve seen or may have heard comes into play with mitigating risk. Cyber-security, physical security, virtual security, AI security, whatever flavor of security you may have.
Bottom line is we all want to mitigate our risk. We want to mitigate our risk. We want to mitigate your risk and we want you to mitigate your risk as well whether it’s to yourselves, your clients or your vendors or your employees.
Information technology trends are continuing to move forward out there. It’s not stopping. It’s not slowing down and depending on your industry, you may be ahead of the curve. You may be behind the curve or maybe you’re right there keeping up with it.
Regardless of your position, it’s our position to make sure that you’re as secure as you can be whether it’s just providing advice, providing solutions. Again, bottom line, mitigating that risk.
A lot of IT budgets out there that we’re seeing and hearing about, they are really focused on upgrading outdated infrastructure, upgrading outdated software and upgrading outdated policies and securities and procedures. Whether you’re a small business, a large corporate enterprise, it all applies.
If you haven’t had time to sit back and reflect how you’re mitigating your risk this year, there’s still plenty of time. 2019 is not over yet. We’re coming up on that beautiful summertime. We’ve all got vacations. So maybe there’s some down time in the business that allows you to take a few moments, reflect and understand how you can mitigate that risk.
Stay safe. Carry on. Have a great day.
