Digital security equals wealth

No growth is ever done without risk. Every good businessman knows this. However, the money doesn’t stop there. I have been on the lookout for areas of interest in my own business where I can take more risk and where I can also control some risk.

“Business executives must take an active role to make policy part of the company’s DNA. The first step is a clear recognition of the financial risk to the organization in the event of a breach due to non-compliance.” -Bob Janacek, DataMotion

This means that I would not only increase the value of my data by protecting it; I’m actually decreasing that value by not securing it. Still, some companies like Google have already picked up on the idea of ​​protecting data by not securing it at all. Although this leads to some major bugs in consumer privacy issues if someone were to, for example, hack into Google’s server and steal user information.

Several think tank leaders, including Sir Ken Robinson, have discussed the Google X framework. In his popular TED Talk, Robinson said that mistakes have to be made for innovative ideas to emerge. In other words, there is no right or wrong answer in today’s knowledge economy.

How can you or your company take advantage of this movement?

DataMotion CTO Bob Janacek says a best-practice approach to IT security and compliance focuses on two key areas: effective communication about policies and the use of appropriate transfer management tools and controls for email. corporate, even on mobile devices.

Did you know that Google doesn’t track visits you get from mobile and other devices? So far, with Universal Analytics, Google’s upgrade to its current Analytics platform; users will be able to view Internet traffic in a whole new way. Provides support for an analytics.js library and Mobile SDK or higher for Android and iOS. From the sounds of it, Google has been urging developers to move all “properties” as they say to the new Universal Analytics system. Taking the plunge to learn more about your organization’s websites and their demographics is a great move. It’s a lot like moving corporate databases to a more secure infrastructure.

After speaking with a Trust-E Online representative, I am now confident that I would focus my IT department around our corporate policies. I went out and got a digital asset assessment and now I can start to see how much this risk is worth to the organization as a whole. It is worth the investment in my business.