Small businesses need to do whatever they can to stay competitive and efficient. Today, we want to share some of the most transformative technologies that can help your organization keep up with the rapidly changing business landscape. These include artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity solutions.
Running a small or medium-sized business means wearing many hats. But is "Chief IT Firefighter" one you want to wear? Constant tech issues, cybersecurity worries, and wondering if your IT is holding you back. Sound familiar?
For many local businesses, IT feels more like a necessary burden than a strategic tool.
Make no mistake about it, small businesses are being targeted. Thankfully, there are advanced IT security tools that are more accessible to lower-revenue organizations than ever, allowing small businesses to defend themselves like large enterprises. Let’s go into some of the top tools that are helping small businesses stay safe.
Business depends on technology; this fact is what drives businesses to adopt new solutions from vendors and providers around the world. If your business needs to acquire new technology solutions to maintain operations, you’ll likely be working with third parties to make it happen. Today, we want to discuss the idea of business contracts and how to get the best deal from IT vendors you possibly can.
It’s easy to see all the reasons why you should make data regulations and compliance a priority. After all, you want to ensure you don’t violate the trust and security of your customers, as well as the integrity of your operations. If you make even one mistake, it could spell legal trouble for your business, as well as financial losses and loss of reputation.
People do this all the time: if they don’t know an answer, they just make something up that sounds right. It turns out AI has the same bad habit.
Do you have employees working remotely? If you do, the real question is, are you doing everything you can to keep them productive and secure? Remote work is awesome, but it comes with its fair share of risks. Today, we get into how to competently confront them.
Data loss can be from a cyberattack, hardware failure, or just plain bad luck. Either way, it is a real threat to your business. You can hedge against it by having solid data backup strategies in place. Today is World Backup Day, so we thought we’d go through some ways to build a data redundancy platform that will keep you from being left scrambling should disaster strike.
Do you have someone on your staff who can handle most IT-related issues for your business? If not, we’re sure your organization feels it in more ways than one. The issues that come from not having IT help are only made more frustrating when it comes time to find IT help—particularly if you’re committed to getting a technician on-premises.
How much your business should spend on cybersecurity largely depends on a variety of factors, and you cannot lump yourself in with just any other business. The same IT budget will go to different lengths for different businesses. Your typical small business, for example, will not need the same level of security as a serious mega-corporation. But this doesn’t diminish the importance of cybersecurity spending; we’ll tell you why.
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