‘Why organisations must embrace business agility’

At the yearly FPG IT Connect forum, the need for organisations to imbibe the culture of business agility, the ability to adapt quickly while empowering everyone associated with especially now that the country is experiencing a lull, has become imperative.

Organised by FPG Technologies & Solutions Limited, a provider of mobile, cloud, infrastructure and IT security solutions to various sectors of the Nigerian economy, it was stressed that business organisations need to embrace innovations/new ways of doing things to survive the current economic situation. At the event, which was hosted in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of FPG Technologies, Rex Mafiana, said in these turbulent times, organisations need to keep their business innovative, flexible, and fast, which requires the right technology.

Mafiana said FPG is built on solid principles and unprecedented customer focus; with a vision to enable customers achieve extreme business agility with confidence.

According to him, the firm has solutions that help organisation to get to market faster, respond to industry changes faster.He said there are technologies that gives confidence and ensure business organisations never suffer nor experience security breaches.

“Research shows a positive connection between the use of cloud computing, increased business agility and competitive advantage. In addition, the enterprise Mobility market is growing exponentially; Mobility solutions enhance productivity and organisations want their staff and customers to be truly mobile with work and services regardless of the time or their location. This interplay of cloud and mobility and the dependence on the Internet and other e-channels, makes IT security a serious priority. And this is another value that FPG brings to the table. As one the foremost indigenous IT Security Companies, FPG has the ability to provide end-to-end IT Security solutions and services for organisations.

“Today’s information systems are more globally integrated than ever before, and attacks are increasingly sophisticated. Organisations with traditionally stringent data protection requirements find that the old method of keeping systems in silos work against the agility that this interconnectivity provides and as such now demand a broader range of high assurance solutions to safeguard complex business processes and applications,” he stated.

On the need for proper Data Security, he said Cryptography comes to the rescue. He explained that Cryptography protects data effectively only if keys are secure and well managed.

Speaking also at the forum, Lead Security Consulting Engineer for Check Pointe, Justice Anyia, emphasized: “increasing enterprise security often means increasing complexity and management challenges in kind. Check Point delivers a multi-layered line of defense to help organisations maximise security while minimising complexity challenges and closing gaps.

With a single, consolidated view of the security infrastructure, security professionals can do more work with less stress and redundancy; simplify endpoint security management with unified policies, centralised reporting and actionable forensics thus reducing operational expenditures which results in greater efficiency and lower costs.

Check Point solutions seamlessly deliver advanced threat protections to prevent the lateral spread of threats within hardware or Software-Defined Datacentres as well as the visibility and control to effectively manage security in both physical and virtual environments.”