Just think what would happen if a ransomware attack hit your business and locked all your end-users out of their computer systems. What would the impact be on your business if your customers found out? How much revenue would you lose?
Investing in tools and systems that improve productivity has long been considered a necessary cost of doing business – a better set of tools creates a more productive workforce. In the 20th century, those kinds of technologies were essentially production-enhancing tools (think faster writing tools like the typewriter and word processors). Not all these improvements were required. Some companies did not feel the need to keep up with the latest trends. If you could afford them, great, but if you didn’t you still managed to get by.
Everything fails. This is true for everything in life, including networks, databases and systems. No one can avoid failures and their lasting impacts. It is not so much the fact that they fail, but it is more about the costs and damage they leave behind, especially when considering IT downtime.
If your company develops applications for internal use or to interact with customers, how well your DevOps processes function is critical for ensuring smooth business operations. Developers need to deliver new applications quickly, and IT operations must keep those applications running at peak performance. When it’s time for updates, the two teams should be able to work together seamlessly to roll out application revisions as quickly as possible.
Whether you’re already in the cloud or thinking about moving an application or your entire IT infrastructure, security probably comes to mind first. Will your data in the cloud be safe from cybercriminals? And if you store customer data, you’re probably even more concerned.
Online security is something you know is important, but your IT team is not the only one responsible for cybersecurity. Everyone from front-line personnel to the CEO should assume accountability. They all need to do their part to keep the digital assets of your business protected because anything that happens to one user could quickly spread across your entire company.
Data backup and disaster recovery are two different procedures. Data backup is routine; disaster recovery is (or should be) a rare event. Indeed, by backing up critical business data, businesses make the first step to successfully recovering from a network disaster.
Everyone has heard about recent attacks on computer systems – they seem to pop up in the news almost every week. Whether they relate to hacking into the Federal...
According to the FBI Internet Crime Report, the cost of cybercrimes reached $2.7 billion in 2020 for small businesses in the U.S. At the same time, an SBA survey found that 88% of small business owners feel their business is vulnerable to a cyber-attack. That survey also revealed many small to medium businesses can’t afford professional IT solutions, and they have limited internal resources to devote to cybersecurity.
Many small and medium-sized businesses discovered they can operate more efficiently with a remote workforce as the pandemic forced most people to work from home. And even as workplace restrictions have started to ease, many business leaders are considering making the change to the remote model permanent.
