inside tips to make your business run faster, easier, and more profitably.
All physical facilities should be assessed (including any alternate or back-up sites if any exist).
How working from home can increase productivity & satisfaction from customers.
Some businesses just aren’t proactive. They only rely on their IT services company when something goes horribly wrong. If there’s a network failure or their website gets hacked, they’ll make the call to their IT people, but that’s the extent of the relationship.
The ransomware in question is Ryuk, the same ransomware that breached Mineola’s school district in early August and several other districts’ servers. The Rockville Centre school’s insurance paid nearly 100k and can restore all of their data within the next few weeks whereas the Mineola school district had an offline backup that kept them from paying the hackers.
You probably can’t come up with a list of all the shadow IT that’s used at your work, but you can keep an eye on the trends as they develop. Research the technology that’s being used and watch the headlines for data breaches or other compromises.
The National Cyber Security Alliance reports that one in five small businesses have been victims of cybercrime in the last year.