This is Part Two of a three part series about IT mistakes that business owners commonly make. This post will cover security, backup/recovery and Internet policies.
1. You’re Secure, Just Insufficiently
You’ve got encryption, antivirus and antispyware, a firewall and passwords set up, and you feel like your business network is secure. And it might be…on the other hand, it might not. Here’s where your security measures may be falling short.
Antivirus: Just as there’s a difference between consumer and commercial grade computers, there’s a difference between consumer and corporate antivirus. Make sure you’re using business-grade antivirus, which benefits from being installed and updated from a central control center on a company server. This gives you one place to check to see if all antivirus within your network is up date, ran last night, etc.
Your software should also be easy to manage, scalable and offer adequate technical support. Since antivirus subscriptions renew annually, corporate software has the added benefit of renewing all at one time.