Understand Your Technology Risk Profile
Whatever your growth plans, you need to understand your Tech Risk Profile
If you are looking for funding, M+A or a high growth exit it is now essential that you can show your potential investors that you understand your technology environment.
How do we help organisations to be better?
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Review current your current technology environment
A short and sharp review of your technology environment using interviews with key personnel, the C-Level leaders and the Board. We can also do a quick technology / penetration test of your environments.
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Create a short-term risk mitigation document
Create a C-Level report for your business to give an overview of the current technology environment and create a simple way to mitigate the highest level risks.
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Development of a technology roadmap to ensure you keep up with your competition
Create a future roadmap to mitigate your risk profile and use technology to improve your business performance, increasing growth, reducing costs and improving customer outcomes.
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Deploy our technology specialists to start your technology journey
Get experts to assist with delivering your technology roadmap, work with internal teams, vendors and partners
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Analyse you current vendors and ascertain their cost, fit for purpose and delivery capability
We work with you to ascertain the performance of your vendors, reduce your frustration, improve cost management and offboard underperforming vendors.
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Future proof your business using the latest technology
Work with your team to implement the most practical and efficient technology solutions that will empower your staff and increase company growth.
If you cannot answer these simple questions then sophisticated investors are unlikely to trust and invest in your business. ALL companies rely on technology to power their businesses, if you don’t have adequate controls in place your investment and growth strategy is at risk.
Can you honestly answer the questions below for your organisation?
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Do you know what platforms are used across your organisation, are people using public AI, external data stores, sharing data to outside parties?
Do your department rely on advertising platforms, data analytics, are they inadvertently sending your proprietary data offshore, or to global competitors
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Do you have a plan to respond to a technology failure, what is your return to operation time?
Do you know how to prioritise and evaluate your technology risk? What happens if a vendor platform is hacked, what happens to you data? Can you afford for your email or website to be down for a week?
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Are you confident these servers have been patched to remove cyber risks, are there servers that are unused but still connected to the internet?
Do you know the security processes of your SaaS vendors, are they ISO certified?
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Have you tested your BCP plans, are there application that cannot be recovered?
Is you MSP any good? Are you confident they've got your back when there is an incident?
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Do you have a technology roadmap that will allow your business to grow and thrive, does you board integrate this plan?
How does your governance process integrate technology into your growth plans? Are you ensuring that the board understands its tech strategy and risk?
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All businesses are digital businesses, are you confident you can keep ahead of your competitors using the latest technology?
Are you confident that your blended team (vendors, partners and internal staff) are the right people to bring your products to market
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Is technology seen as a key part of your business, or is it an after thought?
This includes a key person in your leadership team that can ensure technology drives growth.
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Are you a vulnerable organisation to cyber infiltration, do you have cyber insurance?
What about your partners and vendors?
Its it not about the incident, but how an organisation recovers.