Has your business taken measures to protect its future from unfortunate events? By this, we mean any situation where your business faces certain annihilation at the hands of a data loss incident, natural disaster, or user error situation.
Managing and maintaining the plethora of solutions your business depends on can be challenging, to say the least. For some businesses, however, the most difficult part of using multiple solutions can often be not just managing them, but paying for them. Thankfully, there is a great service out there that uses the cloud to make all of this easier for small businesses.
It takes a lot of work and determination to make a successful small business. There are countless parts that need to be managed and maintained–so many that it can be difficult to assign a priority at times. There are certain requirements that your organization must achieve in order to remain successful, but it takes a little more than just business savvy to keep your organization ahead of the game. Let’s take a look at some of the ways your business can make itself stand out and achieve success.
Data backup has the nasty misconception that it’s only worth having if you actually use it, but this isn’t necessarily the case. Businesses let this misconception get in the way of an important aspect of business continuity, simply because they don’t want to waste money on something that they won’t actually need. Little do they know that data backup is the only thing standing in the way of your organization failing forever.
Information security and personal privacy have been hot-button issues in 2018. The fallout from the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica controversy sparked the privacy debate in the United States. Meanwhile, in the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was officially enforced on May 25, 2018. The GDPR protects European citizens data privacy. It also fundamentally changes how organizations handle consumer information. While the United States doesn’t have an all-encompassing law protecting data and privacy for the public, there are regulations on the books that oversee how specific industries handle personal information. Today we look at a few of those industries and how you can prepare your business to comply with a variety of regulatory agencies.