In today’s business environment, nothing is more vulnerable than your network. The FBI estimates that security breaches cause US businesses a loss of US$67.2 billion every year due to downtime and data losses.

In order to keep your system functional and your employees productive, you need to be sure that your network is secure and safe from potential threats. A multi-layered approach is essential to safeguard traffic, ensure secure access to data, and prove the current and future value of your company.

To help you with creating a safe corporate network, here are four strategies.

1.     Create a Network Security Policy

Start by developing a formal security policy to protect your intranet or extranet environment from potential threats. The policy should clearly specify who is authorized to use the network, how the network can be used, what types of network activities are allowed, and which ones are prohibited. Besides, put in place a strong encryption and remote access policy to provide appropriate guidance to employees regarding safe networking practices.

2.     Secure the Network

Use a self-defending network strategy to protect your environment from unique and unusual threats. Be sure that all the data traveling through the network is encrypted and generated by authenticate users. Integrate high-end encryption and authentication tools to empower the system with self-defense mechanism.

In addition to this, install smart network monitoring tools to identify and culminate tempering and other security breaches just as the issue arises. Moreover, arrange for surveillance of network equipment and building to monitor the site for suspicious activities.

3.     Use a Secure Backup Plan

Data protection should essentially be a part of your IT strategy. Using the approach, your business may survive everything from accidental file deletion to natural catastrophic event.

As a best practice, backup data should be stored in a secure, remote location away from the primary site of your business. This may ensure optimal protection of data from physical and cyber threats.

4.     Get Employees Involved

Your employees can play a crucial role in protecting your business network. Without proper knowledge of data security issues, your employees may not understand their role in keeping the system safe and protected. It is best to involve them in protecting the network by providing them with appropriate training and informative materials about security, as well as their role in preserving the integrity of the corporate network.

Owing to the growing network security issues, system security should be an essential in your corporate budget items. To learn how you can develop a safe corporate network, contact us online or call us at 877-765-2655.

Gone are the days when organizations relied on paper-based document management. Digital record keeping has not only transformed how we handle our organizational data but has made the business environment more efficient and securer than ever before.

Do you know that your organization is vulnerable to serious network security threats?

With organizations relying more and more on network technologies, security has become a key concern in the modern business environment. Although large businesses are more susceptible to network threats, small and medium sized firms are not safe from security risks. It only takes a small security lapse for a small business to become the target of eavesdroppers and hackers.

As businesses continue to be more complex and dynamic, collaboration is increasingly becoming challenging in the modern corporate environment.

With that in mind, experts are consistently coming up with tools and capabilities to enable businesses to collaborate more effectively. As a result, collaboration technology has taken many forms – from simple messaging to project management programs – to help organizations focus on specific elements while trying to integrate various functions.

The Rising Cost of Business & a Step Toward the ‘Office of the Future’

We live in a technologically advanced world that has, in the recent decade, taken leaps and bounds into the future. We’ve reached Mars and found traces of water. We have cars that now drive themselves. Yet, an astonishing 73 percent of businesses still rely on printing for their business processes. Along with that statistic, imagine the costs that are associated with the printing. Costs, which if minimized, can result in substantial increase in year end profits.

Alan Purchase, senior industrial economist at Stanford Research Institute says, “Costs in the office are running uncontrolled. Where office costs used to be 20% to 30% of the total in a company, they have now grown to 40% to 50% of all costs.”

The bigger the project, the more mismanagement is likely to occur. It’s a pretty straightforward equation. Too many businesses lose too much money on trying to effectively – and concurrently –manage a large number of projects with various employees, at different time periods.

Mistakes occur that can put your project on a hold. However, they’re not inevitable. Some of the leading intranet solutions experts spoke to their project management clients. And here are some mistakes that they’ve highlighted:

Connecting The Unconnected

We know that internal communication is an imperative factor for business success. Yet, a 2012 poll by Gallup states that 70 percent of U.S. employees are not engaged at work. When approximately 20-25 percent of your productivity can be enhanced by a connected workforce, what are the factors that are holding your business back? What are the internal communication mistakes that your business is making?

If you’re relying too much on email and calls, it’s time to revise your business communication strategy. But first, let’s focus on these common mistakes that you could be making: