Harsh truth: IT is expensive. It always is. But it doesn't have to be wasteful and vulnerable to cyber threats. A good IT Manager / CIO / CISO delivers both - IT cost efficiency and cybersecurity. You invest in IT regularly to keep it up to date. ↪ It is expensive. You don't invest in IT, hoping it will be cheaper. ↪ You incur technical debt. You will have to repay your technical debt sooner or later. With interest. And you risk paying an additional cost of technical debt - losses from cyber attacks. You cannot make IT cheap. But you can make it secure and efficient. A good IT Manager helps an organization to: 🔒 Prevent organization from being a victim of most cyber attacks ↪ And prepare it for inevitable cyber attacks 💰 Prevent IT from spending money on things that don't deliver value ↪ Or don't provide cyber resilience addressing the company's risks 💰 Ensure that money spent on IT are used efficiently ↪ By making IT team and IT systems work efficiently When your IT becomes effective, you still must invest in it, But you get a great business value out of it. I have managed effective and secure IT for businesses for over 16 years My credentials? 10 years (6 of them as an IT manager) in a global IT environment of GE Company. 6+ years of integrating IT environment for 20+ institutes in the Polish Research Network. You have to pay for your IT. But this money doesn't have to be wasted.