IT Challenges
Here are some of the challenges facing IT professionals. Do you agree with these statements and what would you like to add?
Questions we need to ask ourselves as IT professionals?
What do we need to create a secure and safe infrastructure with >99.999999% reliability?
What constitutes security and safety?
What is a network?
How do you define a network?
What is a resource?
How do we better manage resources?
How can system change be supported?
What are the core components of computing?
Why is information management so difficult?
How can business needs be better defined and supported?
What are the most difficult challenges issues facing IT today?
Required Infrastructure Operations include:
Security and safety
QoS - performance, reliability, and resilience
Control
Flexibility and changeability
Monitoring
Maintenance
Support
Important Core Technologies and Solutions include:
Open Source Software (OSS)
Linux
Cloud Computing
Security - ZERO Trust, SBOMs, Cryptology
Networking and protocols - TSN, DDS
Data operations - silos, access control
OS safety and security
Key Challenges relate to Security include:
Edge Security
Tool Integration
Bad behavior management
Social engineering management
Event detection
Data security - granularity and semantics
Location management
Flexibility
Cost
Governance
Network Challenges include:
IP network knowledge is limited - ex. Application bandwidth availability
Applications manage connections and access
IP ability to manage time sensitive networks is complex
No native security therefore numerous tools are security needed
IP connection management is complex
Event and behavior management is limited
Medium management is complex
IP was not designed for virtualized cloud solutions
Inefficient multiplexing of data
Data Challenges include:
Silos of data
Data tagging
Archiving
Access control
Data set management such as data restriction (redacting data based on use)
Cross domain management
Secure transport
Data custody, provenance and attestation
Data Life Cycle
Business reasons why our infrastructure not secure?
Incremental system development.
Narrow issue sets focus.
Focus on bottom line profits.
Projects are generally short term in focus.
Innovation is limited by focus on profit.
Security is limited by the systems with the weakest link (lowest common denominator).
Here is a list of requirements for a new infrastructure:
Safe and secure information management is required. (99.999999+)
Real time hardware, software and networking information is required as part of secure operations.
All resources within an infrastructure must be identifiable, securable and manageable.
Secure enterprise resource (ER) to ER operations is required.
Networks and IT security merge into a common operation.
The infrastructure must be self monitoring, stable and flexible.
Policy defines both technical and operational requirements.
The infrastructure must be free to support secure information sharing, services and transactions.
Time Sensitive Network solutions are required for mission critical operations.
(There are many other requirements that may be listed.)
Our main IT infrastructure categories include:
Hardware - design and builds
Software - OS, services and applications
Networking - various protocols, data transport and security
Access control - information, services and devices
Information management
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