In return for a guarantee from KPN to buy about euro300m-worth of IT from it every year for the next six years, Atos Origin paid KPN euro206m up front for the IT assets that the telecoms firm had handed over.But as the spread of mobile phones and digital fixed-line technology ate into KPN's sales, the firm had to make drastic cuts.
"IT Assets, Organizational Capabilities and Firm Performance: Do Resource Allocations and Organizational Differences Explain Performance Variation?" Sinan Aral and Peter Weill, MIT Sloan Working Paper 4632-06.
And in today's economic climate, it is more important than ever for businesses to ensure they are gaining the most value out of their current IT assets rather than reactively deploying new services, which are often proven superfluous following an IT assessment.
In addition to anti-virus and ransomware protection, the tool kit includes multi-factor authentication systems that prevent hackers from seizing employee or customer data using stolen passwords, tools that inventory all of a company's IT assets and a program that prevents hackers from spoofing company emails for phishing attacks.
Collecting detailed information about your IT assets is not enough.
People start thinking about creative ways of monetizing their IT assets via the systems operations and the capabilities they may have geared up in application development.
Randy Mott: I am responsible for the global IT strategy and all the IT assets, and I report to our CEO, Mary Barra.
If your cyber security strategy assumes that you can protect all IT assets, you're placing your company and your career, at risk.
A penetration test doesn't stop at simply uncovering vulnerabilities: it goes the next step to actively exploit those vulnerabilities in order to prove (or disprove) real-world attack vectors against an organization's IT assets, data, humans, and/or physical security.
As more businesses — and specifically government and public sector organizations — update their IT assets and move their operations into the cloud, Salesforce is not the only big U.S. tech company eyeing up how to expand its CRM business with them.
