Has your company hit a technology sticking point? That is when it seems like things are in a rut with your IT infrastructure and you know there are ways to improve but you are not quite sure how to get there.
According to a study by Google, 80% of small businesses are not taking full advantage of technology optimizations. This means they tend to make half as much revenue per employee as firms that are more digitally advanced.
There are any number of technology events that can put a business in danger from data breaches to hard drive crashes with lost data. Our dependence on technology means that if tech goes wrong, business often comes to a standstill.
Damages can be the loss of a few hours of operations to losing your business completely.
60 percent of small businesses that get hacked end up closing their doors within 6 months because they never recover from the losses.
The motto “Be Prepared” may have been developed by the Boy Scouts but it is just as applicable to today’s business world.
As we all have seen over the last few months of the pandemic, business disruption can come out of the blue and completely change how operations are handled.
The businesses that have systems in place to address a number of different disruptive events fare much better than those that do not plan ahead. These systems can drastically reduce downtime and are agile enough to adjust operations.
Data loss can be one of the most devastating things to happen to a business. A single overwritten file probably won’t make a huge dent in your week but a ransomware attack that makes all your data unreadable is a major crisis.
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Do you ever go through manual processes that you do daily and think, “There must be a better way to do this!”
You’re not alone. Despite all the technology at their fingertips, many offices in Connecticut and throughout the country are doing things the hard way even though their technology could improve their workflows.
It is estimated that 80% of U.S. small businesses are not taking full advantage of their technology.
After about a decade of discovering the benefits of using cloud-based systems, many businesses in Connecticut and the rest of the country have adopted multiple cloud tools to help with their business processes.
Any that may have been lagging behind were certainly pushed over to cloud tools due to the pandemic. The sudden “stay at home” orders had companies scrambling to put a technology infrastructure in place that could run their business remotely.
Most of us are online more than we realize. Being “connected” has become a part of life and it’s not just relegated to the time we spend browsing the internet on a PC.
Being online includes smartphones, wearables (like an Apple Watch) and IoT devices (like Alexa). That adds up to a lot of waking time online per day in one form or another between at home and the office.
The FBI regularly puts out public service alerts related to one of the most dangerous online threats that individuals and businesses face – Phishing.
One of the FBI’s latest phishing warnings from March 20, 2020 is about scammers leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to send out phishing emails about multiple subjects. In fact, phishing has increased more than six-fold during the pandemic.
Your small business is growing steadily and with that growth comes new challenges to set it up for continued success. We are here to help you do just that.
Once a business reaches a certain number of employees, the need to share resources and files in a more efficient way becomes imperative. That is usually when a company considers adding a server to their technology infrastructure.
When it comes to cybersecurity, two main sectors of protection are network security and device security.
Network Security
When you install a firewall to monitor all internet traffic to and from your office, that is network security. This means you are protecting your “communication highway” and all of the different pieces of your technology infrastructure including computers, servers, mobile and IoT devices and cloud infrastructure.