EDITOR ’ S NOTE
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of
Intelligent CIO Europe where we discuss some of the exciting trends and developments taking place across the region ’ s IT sector . We hear from various industry experts who offer their best practice advice on hot topics of interest .
On the cover this month , Handan Karakuş , CIO , Petrol Ofisi , tells us how Fortinet ’ s Secure SD-WAN technology has transformed the Turkish fuel and lubricant company ’ s business operations . is the biggest concern IT and cybersecurity teams have around home working .
Following on from that , we also consider how business leaders can apply pandemic lessons to improve workplace recovery planning , on page 38 . Chris Butler , Lead Principal Consultant , Resilience and Security at Sungard AS , explores how business leaders can learn from the past year and the disruption caused by the pandemic in order to improve their workplace recovery planning .
We hear how Fortinet ’ s solution has enabled increased continuity and reliability of business services across Petrol Ofisi ’ s entire infrastructure and ultimately allowed it to make way for Digital Transformation . You can learn more about this on page 58 .
Another interesting technology implementation and Digital Transformation project we learn about this month is how Trafford Council utilised BlueFort Security and Pulse Secure technology offerings to keep its core critical services up and running , regardless of where its team was based . According to Jon Thomson , Head of IT Operations at Trafford Council , the organisation was able to scale up to provide reliable resilient access for 2,100 employees with an average daily usage of 1,500 users . More about this on page 63 .
A topical point of discussion this issue is the home working worry . For our ‘ Trending ’ feature , we consider how home working is affecting employees and why feelings of isolation being experienced by employees
For this issue ’ s ‘ Editor ’ s Question ’, we ask the experts how CISOs can manage expectations and continually evolve their security strategies to keep pace with emerging trends . This comes as BT Security published the results of a global survey which found that in a rapidly changing business environment , the role of the CISO has hugely expanded in its scope and responsibilities .
We receive responses from Skybox Security , BlackBerry , and Cybereason .
Our ‘ Get To Know ’ this month comes from Darrius Jones , Executive Vice President , Chief Strategy Officer and Interim Chief Marketing Officer , Poly . We learn about how he landed in his role and how he likes to relax and unwind outside the office .
I hope you enjoy the read and if you ’ d like to contribute to any upcoming features , please don ’ t hesitate to get in touch at alix @ lynchpinmedia . co . uk
Alix Pressley Editor
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