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Digital footprints cover today's modern workplace. Employees begin making these from the moment that they are hired. They get a company email address and application logins. They may even update their LinkedIn page to connect to your company. The problems don't occur until the offboarding process happens.

When an employee leaves a company, there is a process that needs to happen. This is the process of “decoupling” the employee from the company’s technology assets. This digital offboarding is vital to cybersecurity.

With the end of 2022 fast approaching, business owners may have started planning for the following year. Therefore, it is important to do a year-end technology review to have a clear picture of how the current year was spent and know what to prepare for in the future.

It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October which means that it is time to review your organization’s training program and promote good cybersecurity habits to your employees. 

Software vulnerabilities are an unfortunate part of working with technology. A developer puts out a software release with millions of lines of code. Hackers then look for loopholes that allow them to breach a system through that code.

Have you felt more secure from cyberattacks because you have a smaller business? Maybe you thought that you couldn’t possibly have anything that hackers could want? Maybe you didn’t think they even knew about your small business.

A new report by cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks debunks this myth. Their report analyzed millions of emails across thousands of organizations. It found that small companies have a lot to worry about when it comes to their IT security.

The pandemic has been a reality that companies around the world have shared. It required major changes in how businesses operate. The status quo of having everyone work in the office no longer made sense for everyone. Many organizations needed to quickly evolve to becoming a digital workplace.

More employees are working remotely which means that the bring your own device (BYOD) trend has grown in popularity.

Few things invoke instant panic like missing a mobile device or laptop. These devices hold a good part of our lives. This includes files, personal financials, apps, passwords, pictures, and videos.

To capitalize on a future of work that is more flexible, Google is releasing improvements to its suite of productivity tools. Managing a business has never been simple. Companies have faced various difficulties in the last couple of years ranging from adjusting to a remote world to reduced innovation and teamwork. 

Productivity can be challenging to track regardless of where employees are working. How do you know they’re using their tools as effectively as possible? How can you enable them to adopt best practices?

These are questions that managers often ask themselves. If they’re looking at the wrong things, it can get in the way of empowering their team. For example, you can’t grade productivity simply by “clock in/clock out” times.