Is digital transformation in government really ready for information and operational risk requirements?
There’s no escaping that digital transformation has been heavily touted as the immediate imperative for agencies to quickly improve their services and processes, but all too often critical operational risks and considerations just seem to be left off the brief.
Whichever way you look at it, headlines featuring inadvertent exposure of personal information, documents landing in the wrong hands and messy data and records mismatches are becoming all too common as digital government becomes a reality.
For all the talk of joined up services, citizen centric service design and data driven government, the reality for most public service senior executives is that there’s substantial heavy lifting required when it comes to addressing new and potent risks around security, access control and ensuring that often sensitive information has the necessary governance. Read more…