In this episode of The Bridge, I’m joined by Dante Orsini, Chief Strategy Officer at 11:11 Systems. We’re talking about building cyber resilience and the aftereffects of the rush to pivot workforces during the pandemic. 

11:11 Systems is a managed infrastructure solutions provider that holistically addresses the most pressing cloud, connectivity, and security challenges — like cyber resilience — of today while preparing businesses for tomorrow. 

During this episode, we talk about how we paused being careful during the pandemic. We rushed in and deployed tech without too much thought to our cyber resilience. As a result, the pandemic was a force multiplier for bad actors. 

Plus, we discuss how despite being prevention and security-obsessed, we don’t talk about cyber resilience and recovery enough, and it’s treated like a different (and less interesting) topic. Ultimately, humans and non-technology remain the riskiest aspect of cyber resilience in all our businesses.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• 11:11 Systems' strategy to help organizations modernize their applications, secure their data, increase cyber resilience, and ensure application availability, regardless of where the workload exists.

• The changes in security, cyber resilience, and disaster recovery in the current work environment. 

• The need for companies to have a multi-layered strategy to protect against attacks and improve their cyber resilience. 

• The importance of cyber recovery and resilience, and the move towards bringing disaster recovery into the security framework. 

• The challenge of retaining security talent in a highly competitive job market.

• The need for a comprehensive approach to security that includes people, processes, and technology.

• The role of vendors and consultants in helping organizations to build governance and ensure compliance.

ABOUT DANTE ORSINI

Dante Orsini serves as 11:11 Systems’ Chief Strategy Officer. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading direct and indirect sales teams, ideally positioning him to lead customer-focused strategy across all facets, from planning to execution, business transformation, and partner growth.

In his role as Senior Vice President of Business Development for iland, he oversaw the global direction and execution of iland’s strategic and channel partnerships. Additionally, Dante along with his team were responsible for designing iland’s robust global, partner ecosystem from the ground up. He sits on the VMware Service Provider Advisory Council, as well as the HPE, Veeam, and Zerto Partner Advisory Boards.

Dante was instrumental in helping iland to achieve “Leader” status in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service from 2016 through 2019 when the report was retired. Additionally, Dante and his team led iland to win CRN’s Partner Program (Five-Star rating) for five consecutive years as well as the Veeam Impact Partner of the Year award for four consecutive years and the Zerto Cloud Service Partner of the Year for three consecutive years.

Dante’s background, combined with his thought leadership in cloud computing and cloud infrastructure, have ensured that he is repeatedly tapped to present at events across the globe.

Dante holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interpersonal Communications from Bowling Green State University.

CONTACT DANTE

WEB: https://1111systems.com/why-1111/leadership/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danteorsini/