Investing in IT Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Means Investing in People

Business leaders who are not knee-deep in IT may view the function as so many blinking servers, lines of code and expensive line-items with odd names. But, increasingly, IT and cybersecurity are being viewed as valuable tools for protecting and adding value to a portfolio company — an investment, not a spend, and a function that needs to be state-of-the-art when it comes time to exit.

It is easy to forget an important ingredient for success in this area: people.