4 Ways to Strengthen Your IT Infrastructure in 2024

IT infrastructure is an integral part of any business today. However, advancements around IT infrastructure are evolving at a rapid pace, and so are the challenges around it. As the world becomes more data-driven and intelligent with artificial intelligence (AI), organizations must keep optimizing their IT infrastructure to tackle cybersecurity threats, increasing data volumes, AI integrations, cloud migration, scalability, and more. Therefore, this blog has come up with some useful ways to improve your IT infrastructure in 2024. So, let's get started.

1.     Implement the SecurePatch to Manage and Monitor Endpoints

As organizational operations are becoming diverse with digital transformation and multiple computers, servers, VMs, and other assets, managing and monitoring them is challenging. This is where SecurePatch comes into action.

SecurePatch is a SaaS full management and monitoring suite that helps organizations manage their diverse on-premises and cloud computing devices effortlessly. With SecurePatch, you can:

• Get real-time visibility to all assets, such as computers, servers, data storage devices, VMs, routers, data center, etc.
• Monitor the performance of endpoints in real-time, like CPU usage, network traffic, disk activity, memory consumption, etc.
• Get real-time alerts of threats or issues.
• Automate patches or upgrades of endpoints. 
• Troubleshoot devices remotely.
• Get regular reporting on devices, activities, etc.

In short, SecurePatch is your one-stop solution to manage and monitor all endpoints efficiently. It can also integrate with other platforms, like Microsoft 365. So, the first tip for strengthening your Information Technology infrastructure is to implement SecurePatch and improve the performance, security, and usability of all organization devices.

2.     Improve Cyber Hygiene

Cyberattacks are endless threats for organizations in 2024 and the upcoming years. So, one common tip every year to improve IT infrastructure is to improve cyber hygiene. 

Cyber hygiene emphasizes adopting a security-centric mindset to mitigate potential cyber threats and data breach vulnerabilities within the IT infrastructure. Some of the best practices to improve cyber hygiene in 2024 are as follows:

• Set up an automated backup system, especially cloud storage backup
• Control user permissions and administrative privileges of digital infrastructure
• Monitor and audit logs
• Keep software OS up-to-date and patched across endpoints
• Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• Set up incident response and management strategy
• Implement a strong password policy
• Secure remote access
• Educate employees with awareness training
• Regular security audit

In short, you should work on improving cyber hygiene where your organization seems to be lagging. This will directly strengthen your IT infrastructure from known and unknown vulnerabilities.

3.     Protect IT Infrastructure from Ransomware with Ransomware Protect

According to Corvus Q3 2023 Global Ransomware Report, ransomware attacks are growing at a record-breaking pace. The global Q3 2023 ransomware attack frequency was 11% higher than Q2 2023 and 95% higher year-to-year (YoY).

This means that hackers can victimize almost every organization with ransomware attacks. To mitigate ransomware challenges, CARE Ransomware Protect comes to the rescue. 

Ransomware Protect is a ransomware consulting and protection service that provides your organization access to a highly experienced team of cybersecurity professionals. With Ransomware Protect, you get:

• Proactive ransomware protection solutions, such as vulnerability management, network protection, system updates, secure backups, etc.
• Ransomware negotiation with attackers.
• Ransomware removal.
• System decryption, recovery, and clean-up after ransomware.

In short, Ransomware Protect is your ultimate solution to handle all ransomware-related activities proficiently. So, if your IT infrastructure is vulnerable to ransomware attacks, Ransomware Protect is the service to deploy in 2024.

4.     Get IT Professionals to Run your IT Infrastructure with Managed IT Services

IT infrastructures are becoming bigger and more complex, which means there is a need for a larger workforce and more skilled IT professionals to manage existing infrastructure. However, the alternative and effective way to run IT infrastructure is with managed IT services.

Managed IT services like CARE offer you skilled IT professionals who can run and streamline your entire IT infrastructure or selected areas, such as IT maintenance, support, helpdesk, placement, etc. This way, you can get access to the skilled talent and latest technologies that your organization needs to elevate its IT infrastructure in 2024 and increase productivity. 

Wrapping Up

2023 has witnessed a massive surge in advanced tools/technologies along with security threats, so we cannot keep our expectations low for 2024. Therefore, it's time for organizations to improve their IT infrastructure to cope with technological advancements and security vulnerabilities. Above, we have covered 4 ways to strengthen your IT infrastructure, but there is a lot more to explore. So, look for more ways to excel that align with your IT and cloud infrastructure and take your organization to new heights.

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