Moving a businesses’ back-office applications to the cloud is the major concern for all Managers looking to improve efficiency, while ensuring Security. Every unit manager has their own favourite, or must-have, cloud services. While it is possible to plan everything out ahead of time, most companies simply don’t work this way. Multiple business units can be run on the cloud independently, especially since all excited unit managers need for access to SaaS is a web browser and a credit card. It may be already too late to know exactly which cloud service is going to be a concern, and how that concern will affect you, Company-wide.

Because of this, overall Business system security becomes non-stop ‘fire-fighting’: Fixing one cloud’s problems at a time as the requests arrive, without having neither the time nor support to take a step back and build out a program to support the entire system. Opus recommends the first step is to build an overall program that anticipates future cloud migration, instead of trying to add components from an ever-evolving marketplace to an existing, ageing infrastructure. Think about your overall System requirements for the next few years, not just dealing with recent problems and how to solve them.

Consult your Managed Services provider and request their ideas on security capabilities and restrictions for your business. The last thing you want to do is break some of your system’s required functionality; remember that there are underlying technical difference between platforms. Any Managed Service Provider is an expert on what exists, and what you are looking for.

This is one of the reasons that the global market for managed IT services is forecast to surpass $200 billion in 2021, a growth of 11.5 percent from last year’s figure. In fact, MSPs are expected to deliver 25 percent of the $4 trillion that enterprises of all sizes will spend on IT products and services globally by 2021, a report found.

The run up to the new Financial year is the perfect time to review and update preparedness plans for business continuity and information security risks. Managers have a better idea of available cash flows, projected business plans, and their own computing needs. Have your MSP build an effective plan to address data breaches and cyber-attacks across several cloud services, offer advice on how to contain the impact of a breach, resolve an incident, and get back to business as fast as possible (The most important part of any corporate disruption).

According to a recent survey by The Ponemon Instute, “What CISO’s Worry About in 2018”, more than two-thirds believe they’’ face a Cyber-Security attack this year. As with any other business system, you will be better off with an experienced Security and Protection provider, and a plan to maintain control over your business online, even if it is being controlled by different Cloud providers.