IDG Contributor Network: Why CIOs need to look beyond their firewall

A decade ago, CIOs had to keep an eye on what was going on in the server rooms and data centers run by their companies. Fast forward to today, and that inward-facing world view has been—I hesitate to invoke the overused term “disrupted” but what the heck—disrupted by the cloud transition. Now that more of a company’s IT runs outside its firewalls, astute CIOs need to be aware of what goes on out there in the wilds of the Internet as well.For example, if your compan