FEATURE: PROACTIVE SECURITY
MAINTAINING RESILIENT SYSTEMS IS NOT ONLY ABOUT KEEPING SYSTEMS ONLINE, BUT ALSO PROTECTING THE TEAM’ S ABILITY TO MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT SACRIFICING ON QUALITY OR SECURITY.
safely and effectively. They enable teams to deploy incrementally, monitor impact in real time, and reduce risk while gaining valuable performance insights. This matters now more than ever, as enterprises are looking for ways to build confidence in deploying new functionality, without the risk of widespread disruptions seen recently.
With many of the recent outages leading to businesses having to compensate customers, especially as banks experienced issues during pay day, CIOs need to offer solutions internally to mitigate the chances of this happening again. And for customers, this translates to fewer crashes, more seamless digital experiences and reduced service downtime.
Reducing risk of downtime
Ultimately, CIOs must prioritise flexibility and security during uncertain times, and this should extend to their feature rollout strategies. Enterprises never know when downtime could strike, and tech teams must be prepared.
By equipping teams with the necessary tools to prioritise safe feature rollout, CIOs can secure some more peace of mind for the wider business, by reducing risk of an outage caused by a faulty rollout, and avoiding a hit to reputation.
During periods of crisis, CIOs should be able to feel relieved that they have built proactive, flexible strategies. This means that if a system is targeted during a rollout, the feature can be withdrawn quickly and securely, reducing risk. As a result, CIOs should not only consider tools, but to drive a wider cultural shift and rethink traditional release cycles, investing in approaches that can give teams more control over how, when, and where features are deployed. Guarded Releases can help drive this mindset forward, and give teams an opportunity to excel.
Resilience as a new measure of success
While innovation is key, resilience, stability and security have become just as important to business leaders in a vulnerable IT era. It’ s crucial that CIOs feel they are equipped to steer the tech team and wider business during tricky times and putting safe feature rollout at the heart of their strategy is one way they can do so. p
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