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Today\u2019s IT teams must maintain a growing infrastructure of on-prem and cloud solutions. These range from physical routers, out-of-band devices, and firewalls, to Zero Trust Security solutions, micro-segmentation tools<\/a>, and network automation integrations. Despite an abundance of physical and virtual solutions meant to help keep digital services online, many organizations face an overwhelming number of tasks just to sustain everyday operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n With the rising risk of recession<\/a>, organizations will be forced to cut back on resources including staff, training, and tools. This will only worsen the existing challenges teams face in their efforts to maintain their distributed infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n In this blog, we\u2019ll explore three gaps that will leave IT teams scrambling this winter, and show you several practical approaches to cope during recession.\u00a0<\/p>\n IT teams have been historically understaffed, and most people can remember at least one significant tech worker hiring campaign from the past decade. Today\u2019s CIOs may in fact be facing the biggest talent gap since 2008<\/a>. For example, in the cybersecurity sector alone, the 2021 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study<\/a> reported that despite adding 700,000 cybersecurity professionals to the workforce in 2021, there\u2019s still a gap of more than 2.7 million workers globally, 377,000 of which are needed in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trained staff are a must for managing an organization\u2019s distributed sites, especially as team silos disappear and workers are required to have a breadth of skills. Business leaders increasingly need people who are proficient in networking and programming, so they can maintain normal operations while progressing their digital transformation initiatives such as hyperautomation<\/a>. It\u2019s a challenge that often comes down to hiring new talent or increasing the skills of existing employees, and both of these approaches require plenty of time and money.\u00a0<\/p>\n This issue will only worsen with the coming recession as companies begin to tighten their belts and slash budgets. Major brands have already shed thousands of workers<\/a> this year, leaving IT teams to make due with existing staff numbers or even reduced headcounts. In the simplest terms, the coming recession will leave companies much less willing or able to invest in staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n Today\u2019s infrastructure incorporates solutions from many different vendors, but the problem is these often come with their own unique tools that are meant to serve only a specific function. Managing SD-WAN, SASE, ZTNA, orchestration, and out-of-band solutions means jumping between disparate tools, many of which lack integration with one another. This complexity<\/a> leaves operational teams stuck in a reactionary break\/fix posture trying to climb mountains of never-ending support tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\nGap 1: Lack of staff<\/h1>\n
Gap 2: Lack of tools to reduce workloads<\/h1>\n