Having spent time talking with literally dozens of my fellow small business owners, I regularly move away from those talks feeling a surpassing sense of dismay at the state of the data, network, or website security of my peers. I notice that most small business owners have to perform plenty of fancy footwork to keep everything running along on a roughly even keel, and many feel that they simply don't have time to attend to correct security.
Unfortunately, not making the effort now could mean not having a business to attend to later on down the line. For a good many business owners I have spoken with, their plan for dealing with the hazards a potential hacker poses is to simply "hide in plain sight." By that I mean, to do nothing at all, and hope that there are so many hacking targets worldwide that they'll simply be passed by.
This is both unlucky and threatening, as the sorry truth is that in the time it takes you to read to the end of this essay, perhaps half a dozen firms or government agencies will have been successfully hacked, and that's highly likely a conservative estimate.
No, sooner or later, unless you take a little time to guard against it and put the best web site security system in place that you can ( or network security, or both ), then the day will no doubt come when you'll find yourself picking up the pieces of your business after a hacker breeches whatever weak defenses you've erected, and either makes off with all your delicate data to sell it to a rival, or simply destroys it, leaving you with nothing. Both are about similarly likely, because many hackers do not do it for the capability for fiscal gain, but only because they can. Only because you were foolish enough to not lock your doors, or to leave the key in some place where a few minutes looking would turn it up. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Do not be that person. Defend your info, which in the modern day world is pretty much the same as asserting shield your business. You put locks on your doors, right? And you use them? Actually you'd think a peer loony for scoffing at doing the same, wouldn't you? Then why should it be any different when referring to the security of your corporation's info?
Unfortunately, not making the effort now could mean not having a business to attend to later on down the line. For a good many business owners I have spoken with, their plan for dealing with the hazards a potential hacker poses is to simply "hide in plain sight." By that I mean, to do nothing at all, and hope that there are so many hacking targets worldwide that they'll simply be passed by.
This is both unlucky and threatening, as the sorry truth is that in the time it takes you to read to the end of this essay, perhaps half a dozen firms or government agencies will have been successfully hacked, and that's highly likely a conservative estimate.
No, sooner or later, unless you take a little time to guard against it and put the best web site security system in place that you can ( or network security, or both ), then the day will no doubt come when you'll find yourself picking up the pieces of your business after a hacker breeches whatever weak defenses you've erected, and either makes off with all your delicate data to sell it to a rival, or simply destroys it, leaving you with nothing. Both are about similarly likely, because many hackers do not do it for the capability for fiscal gain, but only because they can. Only because you were foolish enough to not lock your doors, or to leave the key in some place where a few minutes looking would turn it up. Figuratively speaking, of course.
Do not be that person. Defend your info, which in the modern day world is pretty much the same as asserting shield your business. You put locks on your doors, right? And you use them? Actually you'd think a peer loony for scoffing at doing the same, wouldn't you? Then why should it be any different when referring to the security of your corporation's info?
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