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operations during a disaster or a crisis. The CIO should immediately assemble his virtual incident response team to react swiftly and precisely to assess the situation during critical IT incidents or cybersecurity attacks, so they mitigate the damage, respond at speed and make informed decisions about how to move forward. The administrators and operators of the data centre and on-premise business services will manage the systems remotely and the CIO needs to have end-to-end visibility of the entirety of the services provided to both internal users and the customer-facing applications. The health of the business services and data centre infrastructure components, systems performance and availability are the highest priorities for the CIO in order to maintain excellent levels of user experience and service accessibility for customers and employees. The command and control team should provide the CIO with a single pane of glass dashboard, equipped with the right views. The dashboard will provide real-time visibility on the most critical business applications and their dependencies, as well as network performance and traffic, virtual private connections status, application response time and, most importantly, security threats. Working from home will allow workers to connect remotely to critical business services and underlying infrastructure, possibly from an unsecured network and without the use of a trusted and regulated VPN. This will upsurge the chances for attackers and simultaneously compromise data centre The command and control team should provide the CIO with a single pane of glass dashboard, equipped with the right views. www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 25 75