Where are all of your Data Assets?

You can work with your IT Provider to take an up to date inventory that identifies the location of and access to the critical information that drives your business. When you complete that you can then build Policies and procedures that are designed to protect that data and begin assessing any threats or vulnerabilities to it.

How would your business and Clients be affected if those data assets were lost?

Unexpected data loss is one of the biggest threats to business success. According to a recent SBA survey, 88% of small business owners felt their business was vulnerable to a cyber-attack. Yet many businesses can’t afford professional IT solutions, they have limited time to devote to cybersecurity, or they don’t know where to begin. Many businesses affected by a data disaster will discover that they can’t conduct regular business operations without it, compounding the problem while wreaking havoc on a company’s reputation and revenue.

How are your data backups stored, and how easily can they be accessed?

Regular, remote, and redundant data backup is important.

But backing up your data is one thing — having easy access to those backups is entirely another. 

ITSG will work with you to build a plan that will securely store your backups in a variety of physical and cloud-based locations to mitigate the risk of total data loss risk. In addition, we integrate strong data recovery procedures with all data backup plans, helping companies retrieve their impacted information as efficiently as possible to support the return to day-to-day business operations and doing this in the most cost effective way.

Can you and your employees identify the top threats to business data?

If you said ransomware, phishing, and data breaches, you’re partially right. Cyber threats, however, barrage companies from every direction, this could be sent in malicious emails, infected website ads, and even illicit phone calls trying to gather information. The goal of stealing your data may remain the same, but the methods that hackers employ to achieve their nefarious aims are constantly evolving.

Do you use network intrusion Detection and Prevention tools to give your data an extra layer of protection?

Basic hardware monitoring and managed IT services are essential.

In today’s threat landscape, further layers are needed. Many companies require around-the-clock security-focused monitoring and intrusion detection, often referred to as SOC (Security Operations Center) and SIEM (Security Incident & Event Management). These tools give a company’s best shot at fending off cyberattacks, tracking the actively changing and evolving hacking landscape in real time to protect your data. If you aren’t sure about the need for intrusion detection tools or whether your data security is robust enough,