When a new mobile app goes viral you have a goldmine. Consider Pokemon Go. Nintendo more than doubled its stock price in a few weeks thanks to the popularity of the new game that superimposes Pokemon virtual reality on gamers’ reality. However, with new apps such as Pokemon Go there are unanticipated security risks as well.
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Cybersecurity is complex and the risks from a security breach are underrated. Cyber criminals are at work around the clock, finding new ways to break into corporate networks to steal personal data, financial data, and intellectual property. As a result, CIOs are continually balancing the risks versus the returns of their cybersecurity investment. It seems impossible to stave off all types of security threats, so how much protection do they really want to pay for? It’s like buying insurance; how much coverage is enough and can you have too much?
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How much time do your employees waste surfing the web? Workstations have become an essential tool in the workplace and while computers promote new levels of productivity, they also can be a source of endless distraction for employees. While workers need to use computers to enter data, generate reports, create invoices, and for a host of other functions, employees also use their workstations for online shopping, checking their personal email and looking at Facebook. With the benefits of internet access, there is also the downside of employees wasting company time online. Your challenge is to find the best way to police employee web access without undermining productivity.
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One of the advantages of being a small business is the ability to rapidly adapt to changing market conditions. Unlike lumbering corporations, small businesses can be more nimble in their business practices, which makes it easier to assess and try new things. That’s why small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) tend to be early adopters of emerging technology.
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By definition, a disaster is something you cannot plan for in advance, and in the case of your enterprise network, an unexpected IT disaster could cost your organization tens of thousands of dollars. So while you cannot anticipate disaster, you can be prepared for disaster recovery to minimize losses and get your business back online as quickly as possible.
Every organization needs an IT disaster recovery plan. It’s clearly much more expensive to do nothing than to have a disaster preparedness plan in place. Think of the potential losses from a network disaster in terms of a mathematical formula:
Losses = incident probability x cost of incident
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