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There is a time in a business’s evolution when IT systems get out of hand. Once a company employs more than a dozen people or so, it becomes easy to lose track of devices and data. Company information gets stored in odd places in the cloud or shared around personal devices. You would think tech companies would be all over their IT systems, but this isn’t always the case.
This is rarely perceived as a problem until something goes wrong. Someone serves a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) on your company, for example, and you realise that you don’t know where all the data is. Or you find that your intellectual property has somehow been handed over to a rival.
Such events can turn into major financial and reputational problems, but they are rarely viewed as IT risks. Much effort rightly goes into securing systems from attack by hackers and malware, while the consequences of poor data and IT infrastructure management go largely unremarked.
This is unfortunate because reducing these risks can be relatively easy. And once some basic measures are in place, risk reduction need not take much time or effort. Here are six things that you can do straight away to make sure your house is in order, IT-wise.
Putting the appropriate measures in place can be relatively straightforward but at the outset a forensic IT audit can assess what risks you are exposed to and what you should do to counter them effectively. Your route to lower risks starts with a phone call.
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