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If you are running a business, you should know the importance and relevance of IT security for small businesses.
First of all, you deserve to be congratulated on understanding and utilizing the power of automation. This frees up so much resources that cost both time and money. However, maintenance is inescapable, whatever the business that you may be running.
If your business depends so much on IT, have you ever thought of its security? Is it important to you that the 'IT department' of your business is secured and you never have to spend your waking moments worried about it? It should be, because this involves priceless data; things that your business may be surviving on.
The last thing you want is threats from outside compromising your internal system. The first thing that you should have done is the backing up of your data. This back-up is to be done regularly and properly. Improper backing up can be a headache when you want to retrieve information. The right organization goes a long way in retrieving the information that is required easily and quickly. Of course, not have backed up at all is the worst thing that can happen it the existing data is compromised. It may be impossible to retrieve the data, especially when the volume is huge. This means a loss to your business.
What about firewalls to protect your system? Is your system at risk of exposure to outside threats? Firewalls are absolute musts and there is no excuse to not having installed these.
If you are leveraging the power of the web, you should be knowledgeable enough to protect your system for harm as well. Does all this sound confusing and even technical to you?
The good news is that you can have an IT specialist working for you, ensuring that your systems information are in the way it should be. This takes the matter off your hands and ensures that routine maintenance runs like clockwork.
If however, you find that your business is not big enough to justify the hiring of a full-time worker, consider outsourcing this aspect of your business. This way, you get the benefit of a full-time worker working for you without the full-time pay that you would otherwise have to justify. Once your business has expanded enough, then it may be an appropriate time to actually hire a person on site, full-time or part-time.
However you slice it, IT security is not something you can get around with or even neglect; this mis-step may be costly to you down the road. Avoid this pain later by taking the right step now. Hire someone to do the work or outsource it, unless you are a 'techie', and even if you are, you may agree that your time is better spent elsewhere.
Outsourcing this to a web-based service company will give you the best of both worlds. If you have the contacts, you may contact a freelancer directly. Just ensure that this is someone you can rely on. The benefit of working with a company is that it is more dependable.
