If you fall behind in keeping up with things such as patches and security, the odds greatly increase that you’ll face an IT outage or another problem down the road that will negatively impact your business. For instance, if your Email server, financial application or network goes down, you will likely face substantial productivity and revenue losses as a result.
The need for robust IT security is even more critical when considering the complexity of most IT environments, with products from multiple vendors, and dozens of business processes affecting a variety of audiences (employees, customers, partners). It’s not just one component or element of IT that must be secured. The entire stack – from operating systems, to hardware, to databases, middleware and applications – must be bulletproof, because it only takes one weak link to bring IT to a screeching halt.
