Core infrastructure is inevitable in business process today. Why is this so?

for global business. The federal government however can and is advised to do more. This will enable Nigerian businesses to compete on the same level playing field with their global counterparts. Information technology core infrastructure is a critical component of the IT portfolio. IT core infrastructure can be leveraged upon to achieve positive effect on business performance in a number of ways.

This includes but not limited to optimisation of processes and hence increase sales and revenue, provide timely and accurate information to facilitate better decision making, automation of processes that will enable businesses to reduce costs and lastly provide a technology platform to enable other systems to be produced. Information technology is now an enabler for most businesses and no longer an obstacle. Businesses now leverage on technology to increase sales and revenue. Core infrastructure is at the heart of every serious business entity How can business owners identify quality enterprise security products? There are several industry analyst reports that can be assessed. Also business owners should ensure they engage properly through their IT teams and ask very important questions such as “the vendor should provide successful case studies that have been done locally in Nigeria, local support structure, among others.

How important are security issues to organisations in Nigeria? Information security is crucial to all organisations to protect their information and conduct their business. Information security is defined as the protection of information and the system as well as hardware that use, store and transmit that information.

Therefore, information security performs four important functions for an organisation, which is to protect the organisation’s ability to function, enable the safe operation of applications implemented on the organisation’s IT systems, protect the data that organisations collect and use, and to safeguard the technology assets in use in the organisation. There are also challenges and risk involved in implementing