What to look for an email security solution

An important aspect to email security is, of course, deploying a good email security solution. But, with so many available in the market, what should you be looking for when opting for an email security tool? Here are some key features you would want in your email security solution.

• Encryption: Let’s start with the worst-case scenario. Your corporate email server is hacked. By opting for an email security solution that offers data encryption, you can ensure that the thieves are never […]
  

Getting the most out of technology.

As a professional you are in business because you have specific expertise. You have the commitment and drive to succeed, and keeping your business successful requires all of your attention. However, you didn’t go into business to be an expert in emerging technologies. Managing technology can be a real distraction and pull energies away from running your business.

As a small business owner, you are knowledgeable about your profession. Perhaps less so about technology. In particular, you may not have the time or deep experience to […]

Email safety: Firewalls and antivirus are great, but what about your employees

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report states that emails are the primary source of two-thirds of malware. Email is an easy target simply because there is more human touch involved in the case of emails. There’s always a stray chance that someone will end up clicking on a phishing link or downloading the wrong attachment or simply including sensitive, confidential information in an unencrypted email. The first step to securing your email systems is training your employees. Train your employees […]

Keeping everything up and running on a minimal IT budget

We talked in an earlier blog about how not benefiting from economies of scale can hurt a small firm’s abilities to take full advantage of technology. Aside from using the cloud, another resource to get around these problems is the the outsourcing of certain tasks, including strategic technology planning to optimize the use of new technology.

As background, the term economies of scale refers to the increase in costs advantages as the size of a firm’s production increases. For example, your business relies […]

Hardware costs are barriers to growth and stability

Unless you are a Silicon Valley unicorn, small and medium size firms, especially newer ones, usually face serious limitations to accessing the funds to finance significant capex investments. This can be a particular problem with the IT hardware necessary for the growth of the business as well as for backup and redundancy.

Today we’re talking about two areas where hardware requirements create problems and what can be done about them.

1. Hardware is tiered. One of the frustrations about scaling up a business […]
   

How economies of scale make it hard for small firms to compete

Small and start up operations suffer from the problem of “economies of scale,” making it hard for them to compete with larger firms. This is especially true in the area of IT infrastructure. Small firms need, but generally cannot afford, a completely robust 24/7 monitored, redundant infrastructure. As a result, they are vulnerable to IT failures that could shut down their business.

What are economies of scale? As you begin producing more units of a product or service, the costs of […]

SD WAN – What’s up with that?

So what is this SD-WAN that you have been hearing about? SD-WAN, the acronym for Software Defined Wide Area Network is a new take on the traditional Wide Area Network (WAN). A standard WAN’s goal was to connect users at a branch to a main campus or central office. A WAN is fundamentally hardware-based, using routers to connect users to a central data center. Network administrators or engineers determine how data is moved across the various communication lines. WANs no longer are effective […]

Good Fences Make for Secure Data

Investing in firewalls, anti-malware and data encryption software

Firewalls and anti-malware tools can help you by keeping unwanted actors out of your IT network. These tools work by restricting access to only pre authorized users and these are primarily defensive measures. Data encryption software, on the other hand, is more proactive and works to code your data and store it in a different form such that it makes sense to only those who are authorized to access it, using a decryption key. Proactive measures are your strongest […]

SMB and Some Basic Employee Security Issues

Training teams

Your employees are your first line of defense. Training is a basic requirement and should be conducted for every employee. This necessitates involving Human Resources so that businesses incorporate cyber security training from the first day of onboarding. must train their employees on cybersecurity best practices and also constantly update them with information about the latest scams and techniques adopted by cybercriminals. This will help employees identify situations where they may end up becoming victims of cybercrime or unwittingly compromise the organization’s cybersecurity. Untrained employees may […]

Cybercrime – Two basic routines to Protect Your Data

Cybersecurity is certainly not something to be ignored by organizations no matter how big or small they may be in terms of client base, staff or sales revenue. This is because cybercriminals don’t discriminate when it comes to choosing their victims. While bigger organizations may be better equipped to thwart a cyberattack, smaller businesses may lack the resources to do so. Also, smaller businesses will find it more difficult to bounce back from a cybersecurity incident. However, that doesn’t mean small businesses should give up on […]