Press Release 23 November 2007
Is your Business a New Year time bomb waiting to explode?
We all start the New Year full of good intentions, stop smoking, cut down on chocolate, alcohol, get fit and generally sort out our lives. So why do we not take these good intentions into our work place. Good housekeeping is where it starts. Walk into the in the office on the 2nd January with a list of positive approaches which will make you, your staff and your company more efficient and therefore more profitable.
Is your system fully and reliably backed up? If your systems failed would your business recover, 43% of all business who suffer a major loss of computerised records never reopens and only 6% survive long term.
Are your computers secure and protected? How secure are your passwords, how often are they changed, how often have staff left and yet they are still on the system as a user, do you have a security policy.
Do you receive Spam emails? Anti Spam software eradicates 99% of spam emails, in October 2007 there was an amazing 96.1% of all emails sent classified as spam. Removing this nuisance frees your staff to do the job you are paying them to do.
Do you have a source of IT Support and Advice? Down time losses are costly.
If you cannot give a positive answer to all of these questions you may be vulnerable, you may be holding the time bomb! So many businesses fail to protect instead of protecting against failure. Start your New Year with a resolution to protect your business.
Jonathan Wheatley is the Managing Director of MC Ware Limited, an IT Network and Consultancy company, he is also a qualified Forensics Expert specialising in computer and mobile phone crime. MC Ware provides computer networks, communications solutions, support, software and consultancy to small and medium sized businesses across the North East. Would you like Jonathan to conduct a free IT appraisal? If so give him a call and he will book you in for the 2nd January. Tel 01642 710004.