Two quick ways to protect your data

Looking for a few ways to quickly protect your data and IT infrastructure from cybercriminals? Here are two greatplaces to start. The first is so obvious that almost everyone overlooks it, especially in smaller companies wherethere is little time for proactive training on any topic.

Employee Training

If you’re looking for the quickest tool to protect your digital assets from cyber criminals, adopt a plan for ongoing,long-term employee training. Of all the tricks criminals use to attack and steal your customer and business data,phishing scams are still one of the most successful. Most common are the emails that contain links that lead to fakewebsites. Similar schemes simply send a link that, when used, downloads malware to the employee’s computer and suddenlycriminals have access to your data. Other common email tricks that people STILL fall for request personal data that canbe used for identity theft. Training your employees to recognize potential scams is a low cost but very useful line ofdefense

Data Storage

Your data is really valuable. How you store it really matters. Small businesses often give little thought to the claimsthat data can be compromised or lost. Moving your data to cloud storage—getting it off a local server or PC—has a numberof advantages. While it might seem intuitive that keeping all of your data stored in-house is safest, that likely isn’tthe case. Despite the availability of firewalls, virus protections programs, etc. in most cases a small business doesn’thave the resources to protect its data that large cloud storage services provide. If your physical location is struck byfire or a weather event, you could be out of luck. Even if your backups are stored off-site, there will be significantdowntime. With the Cloud, your data will be stored in more than one physical location. Should some catastrophic eventincapacitate one cloud server farm, another mirrored location elsewhere in the country or worldwide will give you accessto your data with no delay.

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Risk assessment: A Value model

Risk assessment: A Value model Risk assessment means looking at all the conditions, situations and threats that exist that could damage or bring down your business. Risk assessment is all about identifying the external and internal threats that exist and measuring the likely consequences if that threat becomes reality. A data security risk assessment would identify what data you have, how you use it, how confidential it may be, how it is affected by regulations and the ways it could be compromised. A major focus of a data security assessment is cybercrime. In terms of developing an IT staff, the alternative approach to building out a team is to determine your IT staffing needs in terms of risk assessment. That means evaluating risk and directing staffing resources to those areas where the risk is greatest and the consequences most severe. Basically, it is an evaluation on the ROI of your IT staffing in light of identified risk. In particular, what is the return on your risk management

Protecting Your Data on the Cloud

Protecting Your Data on the Cloud Cloud storage has transformed the way businesses store and manage data, but for some, it also raises concerns about data protection. This blog post discusses a few security measures that can be deployed when using cloud storage. Data Encryption One of the fundamental security features of cloud storage is encryption. It ensures that your data remains confidential and protected from unauthorized access. Cloud storage providers use encryption algorithms to protect data both during transit and when stored in their servers. This means that even if an attacker intercepts the data in transit or gains access to the storage servers, the information remains unreadable. Encryption adds an extra layer of security, ensuring that your data remains confidential and secure. Access Controls and Identity Management Concerned about access to data? Cloud storage providers offer access controls and other mechanisms to prevent unauthorized access to your data. These feature

Why Migrate to the Cloud

Why Migrate to the Cloud If you haven't already considered migrating your data storage to the cloud, you are probably in the minority of businesses. While it may seem intuitive that somehow your data is safer if it is stored “ at home,” on location at the site of your business, that probably is not correct. Given the ability of skilled cloud service providers to provide redundancy and a level of security unattainable by a small business, storing all your crucial business data on site using in-house support is probably akin to keeping your money under the mattress instead of a bank. In this blog, we’ll explain what cloud data storage means, and some reasons why it may be a good business decision. In addition, we’ll quickly note some reasons some people get nervous about the security of cloud storage. What is cloud data storage? In an earlier time, a business would store all of its data on-site. Individual employees might keep all of their Word and Excel documents filed on their PC.

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