Even if you spend the majority of your time nurturing the growth of your business, you’ve probably noticed some disturbing headlines lately: “Forty Million Target Customers Affected By Data Breach,” “Cyber Attack Could Cost Sony Studio As Much As $100 Million,” “Hackers Penetrate West Wing Computer Network.”
Ten years ago, reports of computer hacking were rarely published in the mainstream media. Today it’s almost as common as the local weather. As a consumer, you’ve probably been worried about the safety of your personal data and what it might cost you if it got into the wrong hands. As a business owner, though, have you given it any serious thought? After all, what’s the real possibility that a hacker group would target the data stored on the servers of your individual company?
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If you are a CEO that is concerned about employees wasting time online using non-work-related websites like Facebook or Twitter, you may be missing the boat. The bigger risk to employee productivity is a very dangerous new virus called CryptoWall which cannot be stopped by your antivirus software. Here’s how it works: your employee goes to a website that has an infected advertisement on it. When the ad loads on the computer screen a pop-up is displayed. When your employee closes or clicks on the popup, their computer becomes infected.
I know what you are thinking: big deal. The computer is infected. We will just call Dynamic Edge, and they will remove the virus, per normal. Right? Wrong. The problem is that this virus works VERY quickly. So quickly that it destroys the data on the computer and any shared data on your network before you even notice the problem! Yep, you heard me right: ALL of your data. Imagine how this would affect your business.
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Do your customers ever get a busy tone when calling your office? Will you be unable to communicate with customers when the hardware fails in your office? Will it take more than a day to recover? Do your phone handsets look like they were manufactured in 1984? Are you paying more than $35 per user per month?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you need to read on…
Today, cloud based phone systems have solved the problem of aging-expensive-proprietary phone systems for thousands of companies like yours. Here are a few:
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Your company is at greater risk for a cyber attack than you may think! Though online security awareness is on the rise among businesses, many companies are still unaware of the best ways to avoid and prepare for cyber attacks.
Though there is no easy solution to preventing cyber attacks, education is the key. Ensure that your employees are able to recognize scam emails and know not to download suspicious attachments. Being able to effectively gauge the legitimacy of an online communication and having a plan in place in the event of a breach are great steps to help keep your company’s information safe.
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Why do you need a dashboard to run your business? A simple example: Trying out a new ice cream shop.
When you hop in the car and head off to a new ice cream shop, some place you really want to go, but you haven’t been before…You enter ice cream shop’s address in your GPS, turn the key, take your car out of park and start your mission, right?
Can you imagine driving without a dashboard? No indication of your car’s speed? Not knowing how much gas you have left? Would you feel comfortable to ask your passenger to guess if you were in drive, neutral, reverse, or park based on how the car was moving?
Driving this way would be ludicrous, yet many business owners are trying to run a business this way!
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Recently, an Internet hacker who already took down several government websites shifted their focus onto Tennessee. The hacker, who is using the online name Vikingdom2015, used Twitter as a medium to brag about their activities. Vikingdom2015 made an attack last week on TN.gov, but fortunately the state had the appropriate security measures in place to prevent their website from being taken down.
Dynamic Edge was featured in a news story about this particular case. In the video below, DynEdger Eric Near lends his expertise on Internet security.
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