Put your infrastructure risks in control with analytical tools

As in modern world, business is under constant change and outsourcing is new black, it is challenging to analyse risk status reliably. Data should be available in all situations – also during exceptional times – as demanded by business, and by compliance rules like NIS-D and GDPR. For business, data availability and infrastructure are keys for success.

In 2020 it is common to have infrastructure solutions from on-premises, service providers and cloud sources. These combinations can easily establish an environment which is difficult to observe as whole. This is a concern not only for costs, but also for data availability and business continuity. Happy is the CIO or CTO, who is in charge of services and hardware provided by one or two companies. With booming business, a growing number of providers and environments is the rule.

• Cloud IaaS from there, BaaS from there. Outsourcing from another service provider. All from a bit different vendors – Rubrik, Veeam, EMC Isilon, HP Data Protector, IBM TSM, VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Windows, HP-UX, Red Hat, to start with.

Dashboard view? Is all this needed anymore? Which version are we running? Are all versions up-to-date or on planned level? Are all servers under backup routines? Is our possible restore under recovery time objective (RTO), which is set by that critical business unit? Is there a growing number of new virtual services and servers – and are they at all under control or even under backup?

These should be routine checks and therefore hardly any problems at all. Still, headlines “Organisation down and hackers took the environment down – no backups to restore operations” pop up in media. If there is no control of the whole, fundamental risks can come true. 

Therefore, risk mitigation trends and mitigation analysis should be key visuals for those in charge.