Health & Fitness
3 Technology Specific New Year's Resolutions
A brand new year, full of promise, hope, and a fresh start. If you're like most people, you're making the usual resolutions to exercise more, lose weight, pay off debt, etc. Essentially, it's a time of year when we momentarily take stock in our lives and think about all the things we "should" be doing more of, but don't. So while you're in the goal setting mode, we thought we'd tack on 3 things that probably aren't on your list, but should be.
1. Offsite Backups: Some businesses are still relying on undependable (and outdated) tape drives, carbonite, or other volatile backup solutions. If that's you, don't let this be another year where you gamble with everything you've worked so hard to achieve. Get a better backup!
2. Write a Disaster Recovery Plan: If you woke up tomorrow and discovered that you couldn't access your office building due to a tornado, ice storm, etc., what would you do? What would happen if a disgruntled employee or hacker gained access to your web server, line of business application or file server...and deleted everything? These are very real scenarios, and without a plan in place, you could be facing serious down time and financial loss.
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3. Develop a Stronger Cyber Security System Beyond a Firewall and Anti-Virus: With more and more information about us being stored electronically, and with State and Federal laws becoming more strict, you MUST take cyber security seriously. Simply having a good firewall and anti-virus isn't enough these days to keep the highly motivated and technically sophisticated criminals out of your network. The HUMAN element is the biggest threat---employees who accidentally click on links in emails or download files that introduce viruses to your network. Employees are using social media site more frequently, and they can intentionally or accidentally post something that could harm your company's reputation or leak confidential information.
If you don't know where to start, we're here to help. Leave me a comment and we'll take the worry out of these New Year's resolutions!
