Micro Tech October 2018

Micro Tech October 2018

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October 2018

Don’t Become an ITHorror Story

H alloween is just around the corner, and your most enthusiastic neighbors are turning their front yards into fog-filled cemeteries while all the kids pick out the most ghoulish masks they can find to earn some candy. But forget monsters; after years in the IT profession, the scariest thing I’ve seen hasn’t been walking corpses or Freddy Krueger — it’s the kind of technological catastrophes that put small businesses six feet under. I’ve been at this awhile. Over all that time, I’ve seen companies struggle beneath the weight of the smallest tech mistakes, bottom lines impacted after criminals penetrated the business’s network, and those crises that some IT amateurs imagine to be the “impossible” come true. I’ve had business owners call me up way too late, after the damage is already done. Many times, we’ve been able to salvage the business and save them thousands upon thousands of dollars, but in a few other cases, there was little we could do. The prospect of facing one of these disasters should keep any savvy business owner up at night, way more than the cartoonish CGI horror of the latest Halloween blockbuster. If there is one piece of advice I would give to every single business in the Treasure Valley and beyond, it’s this: When it comes to technology, there are a couple of things that you absolutely cannot compromise on. Security, for instance, may sound like nothing more than a buzzword that is splashed all over business news sites, but without adequate measures in place, it’s inevitable that you’ll eventually be forced to shell out thousands of dollars after a breach. And the solution won’t be to slap on some cheap Band-Aid antivirus; it will be a multi-layered approach that provides serious protection against even the most dedicated cybercriminals. Backups are another essential component of any company’s IT SOP. First things first: Put them in place. That’s a great starting point,

but you can’t stop there and call it good. You need to consider what constitutes an acceptable recovery time for your business’s >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

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