Having spent time chatting with literally lots of my fellow small business owners, I often walk away from those chats feeling a surpassing sense of dismay at the state of the info, network, or internet site security of my peers. I realize that most home entrepreneurs have to perform a lot of fancy footwork in order to keep everything running along on a roughly even keel, and many feel they simply don't have time to attend to proper security.
Unfortunately, not making the effort now could mean not having a business to attend to later on down the road. For a good many business owners I have spoken with, their plan for handling the hazards a potential hacker poses is to simply "hide in plain sight." By that I mean, to do nothing at all, and hope that there are so very many hacking targets worldwide that they'll simply be passed by.
This is both unlucky and threatening, because the sorry truth is that in the time it needs you to read to the end of this document, perhaps half a dozen corporations or official agencies will have been successfully hacked, and that's highly likely a conservative estimate.
No, sooner or later, unless you take some time to guard against it and put the best website protection system in place that you can ( or network security, or both ), then the day will definitely come when you will find yourself picking up the pieces of your business after a hacker breeches whatever weak defenses you've erected, and either makes off with all your delicate info to sell it to a rival, or simply destroys it, leaving you with nothing. Both are about similarly likely, because many hackers don't do it for the capability for financial gain, but only because they are able to. Just because you were silly enough to not lock your doors, or to leave the key in some place where one or two minutes looking would turn it up. Figuratively talking, naturally.
Don't be that person. Shield your info, which in the modern-day world is pretty much like asserting protect your business. You put locks on your doors, right? And you use them? In reality you'd think a peer mad for scoffing at doing the same, wouldn't you? Then why should it be any different when referring to the security of your company's information?
Unfortunately, not making the effort now could mean not having a business to attend to later on down the road. For a good many business owners I have spoken with, their plan for handling the hazards a potential hacker poses is to simply "hide in plain sight." By that I mean, to do nothing at all, and hope that there are so very many hacking targets worldwide that they'll simply be passed by.
This is both unlucky and threatening, because the sorry truth is that in the time it needs you to read to the end of this document, perhaps half a dozen corporations or official agencies will have been successfully hacked, and that's highly likely a conservative estimate.
No, sooner or later, unless you take some time to guard against it and put the best website protection system in place that you can ( or network security, or both ), then the day will definitely come when you will find yourself picking up the pieces of your business after a hacker breeches whatever weak defenses you've erected, and either makes off with all your delicate info to sell it to a rival, or simply destroys it, leaving you with nothing. Both are about similarly likely, because many hackers don't do it for the capability for financial gain, but only because they are able to. Just because you were silly enough to not lock your doors, or to leave the key in some place where one or two minutes looking would turn it up. Figuratively talking, naturally.
Don't be that person. Shield your info, which in the modern-day world is pretty much like asserting protect your business. You put locks on your doors, right? And you use them? In reality you'd think a peer mad for scoffing at doing the same, wouldn't you? Then why should it be any different when referring to the security of your company's information?
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