Remote work is more common than ever before, so it’s not a surprise that businesses are looking for innovative ways to ensure remote working arrangements aren’t dragging down operations. Fortunately, because it’s so common now, your business has a lot of options at its disposal, many of which allow for greater flexibility and mobility.
When you go to such great lengths to protect your business’ network, it can come as a shock when you experience a data breach. Someone has to be at blame for such an event, right? Alas, this mindset is often one that can come as a detriment to businesses, especially in the modern age of cybersecurity threats and ransomware. It can divide teams and cause rifts that are hard to recover from.
Keeping a secure password is a little confusing these days, especially when the standards for what is an acceptable, complex password seem to keep shifting back and forth. Let’s take a look at some of the industry-standard best practices for passwords and how you can implement them for your business.
Businesses usually struggle with the hardware side of running a business, whether it is locating the right solutions or taking care of them. Hardware like server units, workstations, and networking components are what keep your company functioning, and without it, you don’t have much of a business. How can you make sure that your business is addressing this critical aspect of running a business? How can you keep hardware from breaking your budget? We recommend starting with a network audit.
The Internet of Things is an amalgamation of countless connected devices that all perform numerous functions. Many of these devices are being utilized in ways that businesses never thought possible. In fact, the Internet of Things and its boundless amount of connected devices have given manufacturers and corporations even more opportunities to get birds-eye views of operations, inventory management, and supply chain management.
Technology can have a very real impact on your organization’s ability to churn out a quality product, but it can also get in the way of doing so. The difference between the two is comprehending what technology you need to ensure that your business is churning out quality goods and services. This month we're taking a look at quality control automation strategies for three separate parts of a business
Disasters are more common in the business world than you might think, be they natural disasters that level your office or simple electrical problems that spark a structural fire. A business-threatening disaster could occur at any moment, and it is your responsibility to ensure that it doesn’t put your business’ future at risk. To this end, we recommend you have plans for off-site operations, even if only temporary.
Issues with your technology can often be spotted long before they become significant time-consuming difficulties, but the catch with this statement is that you have to actively be looking for them. If you want your organization to remain profitable, you have to make sure that your technology is not wasting your business time or resources, and one way to do this is by actively monitoring your network for these problems.
With so many employees still working remotely, businesses have turned to technology to make sure that their workers are actually working. While the need to know what your employees are up to throughout the workday is important, there is now a discussion happening on whether or not this violates employees’ privacy.
Risk management is part of any effective business strategy and one aspect of running a business that must be addressed if you want to secure long-term success. What goes into an effective risk management strategy and how can you take advantage of it?
