When you understand that the internet is a place filled with risks that threaten the very survival of your business, you have to look at cybersecurity as a vital business capability. Cyber attacks happen every day but only the big ones make it into your news feed.
If you do some or all of your work as a government contractor, you know that your needs for computer hardware and software can change quickly. One minute you could be a 45-person company, and then the next minute you need to ramp up to 200 employees. When all of those new employees need to be equipped with computers, monitors, peripheral accessories and programs to do their jobs, having a managed IT services partner that can scale up and down with you easily makes a big difference in how you handle the peaks and valleys of your workload.
Venture Capitalist and Private Equity firms have sophisticated needs for technology and cybersecurity. In fact, business survival depends on high functioning IT and robust security. That’s why it’s vital to have a managed IT services partner that understands your business and can deliver the level of support and security that you need.
Security isn’t an option for any business these days. Not only is it vital to protect the information that you gather and store, but more and more companies are being asked by their customers and vendors to verify their security posture as a requirement for doing business.
There are many challenges to meet when you’re operating a business in the architecture or engineering industries, but technology shouldn’t be one of them. Your technology should help you to meet your challenges. However, you might not be getting all the benefits that IT can bring unless you have the right managed IT services partner.
Running a construction business is a complex affair. You have workers and materials spread out at multiple locations that are in varying stages of the building process. You’re using more technology to communicate, coordinate and keep track of everything.
If a phone call meant the difference between losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a cyber attack, or avoiding one altogether, would you make that call? Of course, you would. Yet cyber criminals continue to divert payments from their rightful destinations because businesses don’t have a policy in place to validate requests for changes in financial procedures.
It happened again. Marriott had another data breach in June 2022. While the exposure of a reported 20GB of data isn’t anywhere near the 340 million guest records that were discovered breached in 2018, it’s pretty important to the 300 – 400 people whose information was compromised this time.
Think about the experiences that you’ve had with technology improvements. Did the IT projects you’ve been involved with interrupt business operations? Did they finish on time and on budget? Did they bring you the results that were promised?
If these questions are stirring up some bad memories, you’re not alone.
Lots of business leaders are more than willing to invest in technology. They just want to get the outcomes that are promised in return. Is that too much to ask? Previous experiences with technology investments that didn’t meet expectations would make anyone cautious about going down a road to nowhere a second time.
