Improving Your IT Posture.

The first step in improving your IT posture is understanding where you are, where your need to go, and where you want to go to scale and protect your business. There are plenty of technology project you can start working on, therefore, having a good understanding of your internal processes, information flows, and current risks can provide you with a logical and prioritized list of initiatives that will allow you to scale while remaining safe.

Cybersecurity Breaches can lead to long-term consequences, such as loss of client trust, diminished reputation and ultimately loss of revenue. Hackers are no longer targeting large enterprises, small to medium-sized businesses are also a target, given that they are typically the most vulnerable. Your efforts to enhance and scale your business can quickly be jeopardised if your company suffers a breach. Therefore, having the right protection in place will provide you the right peace of mind to smoothly operate and grow your business.

Your business is composed of humans and human error is the main cause of 95% of all cybersecurity breaches. In other words, if human error is mitigated, most breach may not take place at all. Therefore, raising employee awareness, and insuring they understand and can respond to breaches is key factor to the safety of your business, your employees, and your clients.

Once you have assessed and secured your business, it’s time to deploy the recommended roadmap to lead to sustainable scalability and heightened productivity. From new hardware to productivity tool deployment to moving your business to the cloud, it’s important to gather the right level of consulting from industry specialists to ensure a smooth deployment.

There are high-value operational tasks, as well as low-value, but yet still critical, operational tasks which can end up costing more if completely performed in-house. Outsourcing your technology support team, your network operations as well as your security management is cost effective and beneficial, given that these outsource teams already have the necessary processes in place you would otherwise need to build and staff for. Your team’s time is best spent on tasks which drive value towards your business.

To scale your business efficiently, you should automate as many low-value or repetitive tasks as possible. Automation frees up employee time, so they can focus on high-value tasks, leading to higher productivity, cost savings and better earnings. Furthermore, automation removes the human error aspect, it can enhance your communications throughout your organization, and can lead to a better customer experience.