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How to Translate More Security Into More Productivity

Fear of productivity loss is a common driver of business insecurity. Business leaders don’t want to waste precious budget space on security experts and audits, and workers don’t want to interrupt their daily responsibilities to update programs or scan for viruses. As a result, gaping holes quickly develop in a business’s defenses, and cybercriminals swoop in to steal critical data.

The unfortunate fact is by avoiding these seemingly time- and cost-intensive security measures, businesses lose absurd amounts of time and money to cyberattack. While it might seem that using complicated passwords, restricting employee access, scheduling scans and audits, and keeping security systems secure is misusing effort and funds, the truth is businesses who don’t protect themselves are lazy, impudent, and ultimately improvident.

Still, there are ways to be especially economical with one’s security measures. Here are a few tips to ensure your business is safe and secure as well as productive and economical.

Learn What You Need

There are several tiers of security measures. At the bottom are the account passwords built into modern operating systems, and at the top are biometric locks, cameras, dual-factor authentication fobs, and other intensive security measures. Likely, your business falls somewhere in the middle.

Adding extra security features beyond your needs will unnecessarily hamper your staff and add avoidable costs. Therefore, you should spend some time assessing your business’s needs as you make your security strategy. This requires learning about digital security, reviewing security options, and enacting security policies amongst your staff.

If you are unwilling or unable to devote some time to optimizing your business’s security, you can outsource this process to a cybersecurity consultant or firm, which will audit your existing security, analyze your needs, build your security framework, and perform other essential services. However, even if you outsource your security, you and your staff should fully understand the layers of protection on your devices and data, so you don’t disable or work around essential defenses.

Hire Tech Support

Whether you build your own security framework or you have experts do it for you, eventually your security will break down. Devices will freeze up, software will go out-of-date, hackers will develop new techniques to find vulnerabilities, and employees will break security rules. The only way to prevent these events from causing a data breach that could crash your business is to have a technical support team available at all times.

Tech support professionals are the typical IT experts who are proficient at solving a wide range of computer problems, from insidious malware to device and software setups. If something goes wrong with an important device, your on-call tech support should be able to resolve it before your security is compromised. You can also receive technical support for your home networks, to keep your data safe when you or your staff bring business home.

Clean Up Digital Spaces

The fewer programs and applications on your work devices, the less vulnerable you are to cyberattack. Cybercriminals gain access to a network through vulnerabilities in poorly maintained software, to include operating systems. If you don’t want to interrupt your employees with incessant software updates, you should consider stripping down work devices to the bare minimum they need to get by. This also helps increase productivity by reducing time spent searching for useful programs and ridding devices of potentially distracting apps.

Available online are severable reputable registry cleaning programs that will find software, evaluate its use, and automatically clean and erase applications that don’t follow your limitations. Registry cleaners will also effectively eliminate bloatware you might not be aware of, speeding up your machines and your workers.

Use and Abuse the Cloud

You might be able to access the cloud using your device, but any data you store in the cloud isn’t even close to living on your hard drive. Instead, that data is far away, inside a server dedicated to storing all kinds of information. On one hand, that keeps your devices clean and speedy; on the other, it means you must consider cloud security as well.

Fortunately, most cloud services providers are happy to explain their existing security infrastructures before you purchase their server space. Additionally, many organizations are working to regulate cloud security measures, so cloud providers must install a standard amount of security features, like encryption. Therefore, you should feel free to send your data to the cloud without worrying about its safety.

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