If you’re a successful business, chances are you have many devices and much technology around the office that operates your business. Technology is the root of our communication and business transactions, and plays an integral role in almost all business models today.
While you expect your technology to perform normally and function effectively for you, this is not always the case. Your business technology needs love and attention from your IT specialist.
Typically your company should work with the same IT company over time, so they can get accustomed to your technology over time. Your IT company will service your desktops, laptops, phone systems, networks and servers regularly. This is a huge part of business security with your technology.
With your technology serviced regularly, your systems should be working to the best of their abilities. Your specialists will ensure your devices are free of bugs, and are not at risk of hacking.
On your end, you can ensure your employees are safely backing up to the cloud, and properly using your server system. You can stress the importance of two way factor authentication for all business accounts, password security, and updates regularly to all login information.
You can advise your employees to always sign off, shut down properly, and keep a safe and protected password log for passwords. Don’t allow your employees to save passwords on business devices. (You may have clients or people foreign to your business using these devices at the office for meetings, or if you attend trade shows/networking events, etc.)
Train your employees for industry specific spam to look out for. Be sure employees are never clicking on and opening spam links on work computers. Phishing is always something to look out for, and something on which you should train your employees. According to Forcepoint, “Phishing is the fraudulent use of electronic communications to deceive and take advantage of users. Phishing attacks attempt to gain sensitive, confidential information such as usernames, passwords, credit card information, network credentials, and more.” Don’t let your employees fall victim to phishing, especially in industries like sales and marketing, where your employees may be emailing multiple new emails everyday.
There is nothing more important to your business than protection and security through your technological devices. If you have questions about how M&H Consulting IT Specialists could assist you with your business technology, reach out to our team today.
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