The digital infrastructure is becoming the critical infrastructure. Discussion paper gives recommendations for restarting after the corona crisis with more digital resilience and innovation.
The Digital Leader Community, a network of IT and digital decision-makers brought together by Cloudflight, recently published the discussion paper “Digital Infrastructure Becomes Critical Infrastructure”. The focus is on the relevance of such infrastructures for society as well as concrete recommendations for action for companies and authorities.
Digital infrastructures form the backbone of economy and society. The importance of failure safety, scalability and the security of critical systems is particularly evident in times of crisis. Strengthening the resilience of highly networked, automated and complex systems is a major challenge that can only be mastered with political support.
Make digital infrastructures permanently resilient
“There are glaring deficiencies in the supply of digital infrastructure with regard to digital resilience in medium-sized businesses, public administration, healthcare and education. It is the job of CIOs and CDOs to ensure that best practices from companies are carried into all areas relevant to society, ”says Harald Greiner, Vice President IT, Technology & Sourcing at the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and co-editor of the discussion paper . “In order to make digital infrastructures permanently resilient, we urgently need developments, especially in the emerging technologies sector. Politics and society should learn from crises and be more open in this regard. "
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