CIOs Vs. COVID-19: Tech Leaders Are Key To Companies’ Emergency Plans

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CIOs are playing a critical role in contingency planning, laying the digital foundations for remote work, tackling cybersecurity and tech supply-chain risks, and helping companies share vital information with employees

The top priority for CIOs is to ensure companies can manage the huge and sudden spike in demand for remote-working capacity caused by the closure of offices and other facilities. “This required my team to make some adjustments to the way we supply necessary equipment and remote access to [our] networks,” explains Kota, who says Autodesk has created a self-service toolkit so that many more employees can quickly set themselves up to work remotely if the need arises.

As they expand remote-working capabilities, CIOs are keeping a close eye on cybersecurity risks. Hospitals and other places that don’t typically cater for a lot of remote work need to pay special attention to this area, notes Drex DeFord, a former CIO of Seattle Children’s Hospital and Scripps Health who is now an executive at CI Security.

 

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Meanwhile Mexico is chilling because their president took insurance policies for their oil, so the oil can go as low as 1 dollar per barrel and Mexico will still get their money. Unlike USA.

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