Football, Halloween and changing leaves are things we traditionally associate with October, but it’s time to add cybersecurity to that list. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Now in its 17th year, CSAM’s central goal is to promote the practices that keep Americans safe in cyberspace. This initiative is overseen by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...Continue Reading
You probably have sick day policies and vacation policies. Work-from-home policies. Policies that address poor performance, social media use and harassment in the workplace. They’re hardly glamorous, but each of these policies is essential because each one serves a unique purpose in protecting your business. A company that doesn’t have a data destruction policy has...Continue Reading
When you’re in the middle of a complete mess, knowing it could have been prevented only sharpens the pain. So when your business suffers a breach, the what-ifs may haunt you. What if you had known that the software needed a patch? What if you had said no to that employee’s request to take their...Continue Reading
Data security breach. Few phrases strike more fear into the hearts of business owners. A breach can happen to any company at any time, from a small mom-and-pop retailer to a massive international conglomerate. More than 7,000 data security breaches were reported in 2019 alone, with more than 15 billion records being exposed. When your...Continue Reading
Can your business afford a major HIPAA violation? Few can. HIPAA violations and enforcement are the purview of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. OCR has imposed more than $116 million in fines due to HIPAA violations, as of spring 2020. Individual fines can be in the six or seven...Continue Reading
It’s a sad reality that some businesses will not survive the COVID-19 crisis. Others will have to reinvent themselves to stay afloat, moving to less expensive facilities to cut costs. Some businesses, having let their employees work from home during the shutdown, may find that setup sustainable and need to downsize their physical offices in...Continue Reading
Nothing lasts forever, but it would be nice if hard drives lasted a little longer. The hard drives that power your business’s electronics and store all your data generally have a life expectancy of around five years, depending on the model; sometimes they start to fail even earlier. Considering how many computers and external drives...Continue Reading
The spread of COVID-19 happened so quickly that businesses of all sizes and across all industries had to scramble to respond. Some non-essential businesses had just hours to prepare their employees before everyone headed home to work remotely for the foreseeable future. Setting up the technology to support temporary remote work may have been relatively...Continue Reading
How long will your company keep a former employee’s W2? What about 1099s? Do bank deposit slips get saved for a few years, or saved forever? How should old receipts and expense reports be handled? These are just some of the questions that can be answered by a company’s record retention policy. A clearly-defined and...Continue Reading
If you need to install new lights in your workplace, do you call on a local electrician for expert help? When you need office supplies, do you have a vendor you can call? Does an accounting firm help you file your taxes? Do you trust other companies to handle your landscaping, snow removal and office...Continue Reading
