Are Funds Going In The Right Direction To Secure Your Data

Are Funds Going In The Right Direction To Secure Your Data

Are funds going in the right direction to secure your data? Seems like any easy enough question.

If you were to sit down with your IT Support or Manager and ask them if your security was up to pair would that be enough?

Times are tough and businesses are not investing enough time or money into protecting their data.

Therefore when asked if your company’s data is secure would you have an answer?

Would you say, “I think so”, “I’m not sure”, “My in house IT knows” and “My budget won’t allow it”

These types of answers are scary because you are leaving your company’s data in the unknown.

Research Shows

Despite the increasing number of data breaches and nearly 1.4 billion data records being lost or stolen in 2016.

59 percent of companies think their sensitive data is secure and 68 percent think a hacker could access their network.

Why leave it up to chance when you wouldn’t leave your car keys in the car just because no one has ever stolen them.

Are Funds Going In The Right Direction To Secure Your Data?

A major Canadian company was forced to pay $425,000 in Bitcoin over the weekend to restore its computer systems.

It was said, “They literally had not choice but to pay” because the backups were frozen.

Although the forensic investigation is in its early stages, the attack was very sophisticated.

By believing that their data is already secure, businesses are failing to prioritize the measures necessary to protect their data.

Businesses need to be aware that hackers are after a company’s most valuable asset, which is Data!

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Fundamentals To Make Your Facebook Business Page Appealing

Fundamentals To Make Your Facebook Business Page Appealing

Fundamentals to make your Facebook business page appealing can be easy and difficult right?

If you decided on using Facebook for your brand or company, it is a wise decision in the long run.

Facebook is home to just about 2 million active monthly subscribers and growing.

You would think it’s as easy as just creating one, throwing up a few photos, posts and then BAM! Well not a chance.

You need to decide whether or not you want to follow through with it or you wont see any development from it.

A Few Tips

Make a business page and don’t create a personal profile for your business.

Avoiding publish mishaps with page roles can be tricky so it would like wise to manage it yourself.

Be artsy, add a recognizable profile picture and choose an engaging cover photo.

Fill out your ‘About’ section with basic information, and add company milestones.

Post photos and videos to your timeline will keep your followers up to date in what your doing.

Fundamentals To Make Your Facebook Business Page Appealing

Make sure you put a lot of consideration in your Facebook content and strategize how frequently you should post.

Trying pinning your most important posts to the top of your page so your target market can see it.

Monitor and respond to comments on your page and furthermore promote your page to generate more followers.

Finally, measure the success of your Facebook efforts and remember these are just ideas and guidelines we have thought of.

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How To Avoid Burning Out At The Office This Summer

How To Avoid Burning Out At The Office This Summer

Do you know how to avoid burning out at the office this summer and are you aware of the problems?

Try googling “Office Burnout” the auto correction might be “employee burnout is a problem with the company not the person”.

Typically that is not something you want your company to be known for and could be a real problem.

News headlines are calling it a crisis and for reasons ranging from physical health to employers lose on turnovers.

Many of us recognize these patterns in friends and family and forget to ask ourselves.

People today at times, are afraid to take time off and as a result succumb to “Burnt Out” status.

Signs Of Burn Out

Learning how to recognize signs of burn out is so beneficial to you as the employer and employee.

Being able to address workloads and mitigate them before problems happen can lead to end point results.

If you have people on your team who are particularly overeager to tackle things,

recognize that it’s a great attitude to have, but check in regularly to make sure that person isn’t biting off more than they can chew.

Lead By Example

Answer this question: If you never see your boss take a vacation, how good are you going to feel about taking one?

You wouldn’t want to would you? So it’s important for employer and employee to take time off.

It is beneficial for the company to have both entity, disconnected and recharged.

How To Avoid Burning Out At The Office This Summer

For employees, use the resources made available to you and make time to recharge.

Walk away from the desk for your break and reflect on your day.

If you’re heading out for a vacation, letting your employer know way ahead of time can always be a good idea.

Make sure which regularly-occurring tasks you’ll be out for are taken care of.

Last but not least, If your out on vacation don’t check in. disconnect and unwind.

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Rank Higher With WordPress Search Engine Optimization

Rank Higher With WordPress Search Engine Optimization

Rank higher with WordPress search engine optimization and manage your website better.

WordPress is one of the best, some might say the best, when it comes to website management and SEO.

Though spending time on your SEO might seem pointless and annoying, it will pay off in the end.

Most of all, improving your SEO can help you to gain more subscribers, views and ranking.

This guide we found, covers quite a lot of ground and is therefore a long read.

WordPress SEO Article

This article keeps you up to date and helps you the user, to be able to have the now on SEO at your finger tips.

At first, Yoast did not have a plugin to use but since then they have created their own plugin.

We use Yoast SEO plugin and this has proven to be most powerful.

Yoast SEO plugin is stable, secure and ready to use, which is nice and convenient.

Maybe you don’t have a SEO plugin and you’re looking for one, this is highly recommended.

This plugin is also free and has a written migration guide for you if you would like to switch.

What is wonderful about Yoast’s plugin is that they continue to update the plugin and articles.

Rank Higher With WordPress Search Engine Optimization

Yoast offers a website review if you’re not certain about what you’re doing with your website.

For a fee, Yoast does offer a full review of your website and ranking to tell you where you stand.

Maybe you’re still on the edge about what you should do about your website and need help.

Well, we’re here to answer your questions so feel free to contact us at anytime.

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Analyze And Secure Your Data First Before Moving Forward

Analyze And Secure Your Data First Before Moving Forward

Analyze and secure your data first before moving forward or you will regret it.

Spending money on cyber security doesn’t prove an organization is getting better at it by any means.

It is painful how many people are not doing detect and respond therefore spending more money on security.

Companies put big firewalls and then they do nothing else but if no one is watching what good is it?

Cyber Security

Cyber attacks will cost businesses across the world $8 trillion in the next five years.

Just put this into prospective, India’s entire GDP crossed $8 trillion two years ago and grows everyday.

The report says that we’ll hit that threshold very soon due to higher levels of Internet connectivity.

Making it easy for Hackers to run in and run out. Heard of that one before?

The biggest problems occur when organizations try to integrate new and legacy systems.

Without having someone check their computers and pay particular attention to security on their network.

The attacks on hospital infrastructure show that inadequate cybersecurity can now cost lives and money.

Analyze And Secure Your Data First Before Moving Forward

Having some sort of IT is better then nothing but if they are not following proper procedure what are you paying for?

What you will see in a small organization is maybe they’ve invested a lot in protection.

They make a one time spend of $40,000 on a firewall and they’ve gone from a zero to a three.

Now they’re not doing any of the other stuff, which is disastrous.

It would be better to be doing all of these at a 2 than one of them at a 4.

Make sure to Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover and Backup.
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Time To Limit Employee Access To Sensitive Company Data

Time To Limit Employee Access To Sensitive Company Data

Time to limit employee access to sensitive company data, because most of all can you trust them?

It is a dirty job but sometimes owners retire and need to lay off employees or consequently fire an employee.

What is left is important data files for anyone to grab as a result you don’t want that happening.

Data files are easily copied and pasted to a removable SD card and now it’s the hands of an employee.

Survey Says

Recent survey says 60 percent of companies don’t know who has full or most noteworthy access to company critical data.

43 percent of data breaches were the result of malicious and incompetent insiders.

Company owners first of all need to change their thinking in that, threats are not always outside the company.

Data Breaches

Breaches can be caused by many things such as unauthorized application use, unauthorized physical and logical access to sensitive data.

Misuse of corporate computers, such as unauthorized sharing of work devices can lead to disaster.

A misuse of passwords or sharing passwords lead to compromised data and back-doors.

In addition to inadequately disposed-of paperwork and lost or stolen devices is an easy way to grab information.

Time To Limit Employee Access To Sensitive Company Data

There are a number of steps and processes a company can take to help mitigate data breaches.

These include, educating staff members, encrypting sensitive data, using access control lists, and developing a clear policy.

A clear policy on how to react and respond to a data breach can be so valuable.

Most importantly knowing exactly who, what, where, and when, the data breach occurred.

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