Integrated Professional Skills in the Digital Age

The report discusses the value and challenges of ICT in the digital era. It covers collaboration tools, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and Russia's local network. It concludes that ICT is essential for efficient and effective functioning.

Integrated Professional
Skills in the Digital Age

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3
TASK ...................................................................................................................................................3
Collaboration in workplace has significantly gained importance in recent times, especially during
pandemic. Identify any TWO collaboration tools and discuss how they have helped businesses to
survive the current pandemic reducing the physical contact among the participants......................3
Cloud computing, cloud storage and e-commerce are becoming the new normal even in industries
that, before the pandemic, seemed decades away from digitalisation. Discuss advantages,
disadvantages, suitability, and applications of cloud storage and computing in improving
digitalisation.....................................................................................................................................3
As the global pandemic upended work and home routines, cyber attackers pounced. The year
2020 holds valuable lessons for cyber security as many workers enter hybrid arrangements, with
home office becoming at least a partial fixture. No matter, what post-pandemic world looks like,
protecting people – wherever and however they work – will be an ongoing challenge. Identify
privacy and security challenges and discuss what possible measures could be taken. ...................3
During the conflict between the Russia and Ukraine, Russia is trying to develop their own
internet, disconnecting from the global Internet, and controlling their local network on their own.
Discuss the benefits and limitations of these networks...................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................4

ABSTRACT
The below report is basically discussed on the professional skills an individual have in the
digital era. The word ICT refers to the assistance in the business organisation as well as an individual
life to work digitally through internet. The respective report considers the value of the ICT and how
it is challenging nowadays. As the pandemic hit the world, the way of working has been changed and
some collaborative tools has helped in the pandemic. The way of interacting with the consumers as
well the business with the help of internet, has been changed by the technology of cloud. Further the
report includes that is the internet has been helpful in terms of the organisation and the workers.
INTRODUCTION
In the era of digital world and 21st century, where the paper is hardly used for any purpose
nowadays because of the invention of the advanced technologies, software, digital products and
many more things. The word ICT which basically stands for the “Information Communication
Technology” which considers all the newest digital technology which aid an individual and the
business organisation to operate through internet. As it assist the companies to design and
manufacture their products and gather and collect the data (Vu, Hanafizadeh, and Bohlin, 2020.). It
is quiet advantageous to use the technologies as they save the time, reduce the paperwork, reduce
face to face communication and the work done through internet is quiet efficacious as the data is
accurate and authentic. In the times of pandemic people started giving propriety to the digital work
and all educational institutions, companies etc. Have started operating digitally (Aparicio Gómez,
2020). This respective report is aimed on the values of the ICT and how it has became challenging
nowadays.
TASK
Collaboration in workplace has significantly gained importance in recent times, especially
during pandemic. Identify any TWO collaboration tools and discuss how they have
helped businesses to survive the current pandemic reducing the physical contact among
the participants.
The pandemic have severely transformed the mode and the manner of working of the people
from organisations , educational institutes and etc. and by which the use of several tools has been
increased for the operating the certain activity. The tools have provided access to he various people
for the smooth and the efficient working of the functions of business on a vast level.
Some of the collaborative tools which have assisted the business to hold in the time of pandemic and

lessen the physical contact among the people are discussed below: -
 askaway – this refers to the open source remote work instrument to run the big video
conferencing, or the other hand meetings for the assistance of the question as well as the
answers sessions in the business organisation. As many the events and conferences have
operating digitally, it serves an idea tool to interact and engage the participants during the
time of pandemic. This tools has been adapted by the several companies in past four years
because of its effectiveness and the smooth operating. The necessity of the communication
with the vast amount of information to numerous people out there has arisen because of the
person to person communication within the office. This instrument have the capability to be
everybody's voice by keeping up an balanced weight. This tools is also accessible for the
organisations along with the services of video calls, prioritizing the questions and answer
them accurately. The questions and answer's digitalisation is compiled with this tool and
assisted in making sure an productive experience (Hernández-Sellés, and et. Al, 2019).
 Sketchboard - this is basically a digital whiteboard which is created for the collaboration in
the real time of the distributes teams. It serves as an digital instrument in the whiteboard form
which is easily accessible on the web rather than dragged into the conference rooms. For
visualising and assisting the employees for implement and execute their ideas, thoughts on
the virtual paper, this is a very effective tool. For the working of the designing website,
assignments management, business intelligence as well as the digital learning this tool has
the ability for the customers. It includes around 400 shapes of sketches and the users can
simply draw the diagram with the help of their mouse. This tool allows the smooth
collaboration for the teams for interaction between the participants with the function of
making notes as well as marking chats. The digital advantage of the whiteboard is quick and
easy access of the full board at once and can view any specific page with zoom in and zoom
out option. This tool have one the powerful feature for earliest accessing the sketches and the
sessions. This tool also saves the conversations automatically which is easy to access and
maintain. The usage of this tool has been increased by the Educational institutes, online
training users, and companies all over the world. The effortless access of the free hand
sketching with the help of hands through which the drawing is done very spontaneously and
smoothly (Yee, and Yunus, 2021).

Cloud computing, cloud storage and e-commerce are becoming the new normal even in
industries that, before the pandemic, seemed decades away from digitalisation. Discuss
advantages, disadvantages, suitability, and applications of cloud storage and computing
in improving digitalisation.
Cloud have changed the manner of interacting with the consumers and the business with the
help of internet, data storing tools and the softwares. In this period of digital world the flow of the
goods,finance, and services have got very smooth. The invention and the introduction of the e-
commerce has enhanced the purchasing of the goods and services with the development in the
business industry with the help of digitalisation. Pandemic increased the use cloud computing, cloud
storage and the e-commerce. Some of the disadvantage, advantages, suitability, cloud storage
applications, and computing in the digitalisation are discussed below (Srivastava, and Khan, 2018): -
advantages: -
 one of the best advantage of computing as well as the cloud storage is that cost is reduced
which is the fiscal rule which aids in earning the profit to gather more money rather then
spending it.
 The chaos created while using the various sort of servers, only cloud computing solves this
with its own benefits like infrastructure, maintenance and utility management and also cost
friendly.
 It also renders the advanced level of security to their users which makes it more reliable to
use in the log run as well.
disadvantages: -
 the time of period for accessing the internet is quiet disadvantageous for its users by the not
proper working of the server. One of the major reason for the internet downtime is the cut off
of the power.
 As the cloud computing is very expensive and tough to migrate from one to another cloud
provider and it requires money, if the user ran out of money then it would be disadvantageous
for the user.
 If the security on the digital systems is low then the servers of cloud computing And storage
can alarm their security.
Suitability: -
one of the best and the appropriate choice for application's developing and testing is the
cloud. Zero implementation cost as well as the low operation cost assist any company of any size
and the type. With its collaboration, it serves as a burst on the social media. It assisted in the back
end by utilising the mobile applications from the cell phones which was increasing the scalability as
well as the elasticity of the cloud. The best beneficial feature which makes suitable for the usage is

basically the recovery of the data servers. The usage of the calender, e-learning, word processors and
the another cell phone applications are very productive with the utilisation of the cloud computing.
Applications of Cloud computing and storage :-
Some of the main utilisations of the cloud storage are online data storage, recovery, backup ,
development, testing, cloud computing in the medical field, analysis of big data, social networking
sites, entertainment applications, and the anti virus applications. To store and develop the data from
the different fields with some enhanced skills this application aids in getting the data. For the
procedure of digital transformation cloud computing helps by adding the excess dimensional layer to
it From adapting the digital technology to rebuild its procedure, experience, tools on a full fledged
basis in the time of this generation of virtual environment. The effective cost of this makes it more
adaptable as well as advantageous for the business (Rashid, and Chaturvedi, 2019).
As the global pandemic upended work and home routines, cyber attackers pounced. The year
2020 holds valuable lessons for cyber security as many workers enter hybrid
arrangements, with home office becoming at least a partial fixture. No matter, what post-
pandemic world looks like, protecting people – wherever and however they work – will
be an ongoing challenge. Identify privacy and security challenges and discuss what
possible measures could be taken.
The IT is basically refers to the combination of the technological tools and the resources
which are utilised in conveying, exchanging, storing, and creating the information. Some of the uses
of the ICT are like efficient work, low cost, minimum time consuming and many more. Last year
when the pandemic hit the world, the world was stopped but the organisation all over the world were
in functioning which was possible because of the ICT. All the employees of the company has said to
work form home digitally (Taylor, and et. Al, 2020). It has became easy for both the organisation as
well as the workers. Because of ICT which have a strong and wide area network which easily
connects the employees and the company it has became successful. Still there are some issues
because of the pandemic like everybody can not the do work from home because of their home
routines and it becomes a task to manage both of them. Everything has its pros and cons, so do ICT.
During the time of pandemic when people prioritized ICT a lot, it faced the attackers of data, and
the organisation system was hacked and all the confidential information related to the business have
been leaked. In 2020, many organisation learnt the lesson regarding cybersecurity and the lesson that
the organisations learned was to implement the security internally. Many organisations thought that
the outsider is cyber attacking but during the time of pandemic many domains of the employees got
hacked and he information was leaked. Also during this time many accounts of the popular
personalities like Joe biden, Barack Obama, elon musk has been hacked and also the popular phone

brand which is apple, was also under cyberattack (Lallie, and et. Al, 2021). Many organisations have
got a control over the cyberattacks and developed a reliable access control system internally.
During the conflict between the Russia and Ukraine, Russia is trying to develop their own
internet, disconnecting from the global Internet, and controlling their local network on
their own. Discuss the benefits and limitations of these networks.
Due to the intense war between Ukraine and Russia, the world was scared because of the
cyber crime. The modern warfare consists of the cyber attacks and in the war of Russia ad Ukraine it
was used as a weapon to demoralize the world and spread the fake information all over the world.
There are numerous cyber crimes recorded worldwide since the war has been started. Because of all
this Russia has decided to build up their own local network instead of using the global network some
of the advantages and the disadvantage of developing a new local network in the country has been
discussed below (Monteith, and et. Al, 2021): -
advantages: -
 security – if the network is personal then it is easy to protect the data. It will provide more
security to the country's data and protect the data against the theft danger.
 Privacy – the country's data will be hidden from the world with the use of local network.
Every online record, transaction etc. will be shown to the world either customised or not at
all.
disadvantages:-
 implementation cost – setting up a new network in the whole country will cost so high.
Special tools, techniques, labours, equipments will be required which will a lot of time and
money as well.
 Globally detached – the country will be globally detached, neither information from the
country can go outside, nor any information from outside can come inside the country as they
are no more using the global networks (Leach, and et. Al, 1983).
CONCLUSION
The above respective report concludes that the term ICT refers to the information
Communication Technology which is the advance digital technology which basically assist an
individual and the business firm to operate digitally with the help of the internet. This helps an
organisation in designing and manufacturing their products and store all the data related to the
business. By the use of latest technology it is advantageous for everyone in many ways like it saves
the time, reduce the paperwork, reduce face to face communication and the work done through
internet is quiet efficacious as the data is accurate and authentic. From the time of pandemic the use

of mobile phones, video conferencing, cloud and internet has been increased. Further the report has a
brief discussion on the value of ICT which is majorly used for the interaction in improved and
quicker way, lastly the challenges like technical support, limited accessibility have been faced by
the ICT.

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