There are many layers to any good IT security plan at a Charlotte business. These include things like anti-malware, a network firewall, and password security.
The “2020 Data Breach Investigations Report” by Verizon has some pretty alarming news when it comes to credential theft. User passwords have become the most popular target of hackers.
Does it seem like you have a LOT of different cloud applications? It’s not your imagination. There are many companies in Charlotte and the rest of the country that have come out of the cloud adoption revolution with more apps than they knew they had.
The COVID-19 crisis had many Charlotte area businesses rethinking their business continuity plan (or lack of one). It illustrated the need to be prepared for anything, including major unexpected changes in how we work and live.
When companies first start using Microsoft 365, they initially will gravitate towards the apps they know best, which are the Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.).
Have you ever had trouble getting your legitimate email received by a customer? What about not getting a client’s email that you know they sent, and when you search, you find it in your spam folder?
Prior to the pandemic, the use of remote workers was growing, but it was still a small portion of the total workforce. Before COVID-19 there were approximately 10% or fewer employees that worked remotely three or more days per week.
It’s just a simple operating system update, no problem to do yourself, right? But if you’ve got any type of software or hardware conflict, that “simple” update can end up making a PC unusable until it’s fixed.
