Introducing Your New Business Network: The Internet

Getty It’s a five-alarm fire for your business, with critical applications knocked offline and operations grinding to a halt. Your top engineers are working furiously to fix the outage, poring over every part of the business network. The problem: Your “business network” is no longer confined to the corporate local- and wide-area network (LAN/WAN). Even basic IT operations now depend on a sprawling web of software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, cloud infrastructure, application programming interfaces (APIs) and third-party web services. Issues in any one of them can wreak havoc on your operations—and none are under your direct control. Welcome to the new normal, where the lines that used to separate your network from the internet no longer exist. As you integrate more third-party services into your IT stack, you can do amazing things, like enabling your workforce to work productively from anywhere. But you also introduce more complexity, new interdependencies and more possibilities for something to go wrong. The internet is now your business network, and things will never be the same. Living With Distributed IT Covid-19 changed everything for corporate IT environments. In just a few months, businesses found themselves relying on remote workforces, and much of the world’s digital […]

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