Leadership plays a major role in IT and Cybersecurity for your organization. Without the buy-in from leadership, employees will be untrained and unprepared for a plan of action when breaches happen in your organization. The best way to tackle issues head-on is to work with your IT service provider to create an employee training plan to equip your employees with a plan of action that they need to follow should a breach occur. Time is of the essence when these breaches happen.
Additionally, it is important to have a process in place on how to handle data daily. Your IT provider will be able to help you curate what plans need to look like, but the plan needs to include how to handle your data. Whether it be daily data backups, not installing applications that have nothing to do with the job function, or if your employees can connect business accounts on their mobile devices. These items could be part of your employee training plan to protect your organization and equip them with their plan of action on a daily basis.
It is advisable for leaders to meet with their IT service providers on a quarterly basis to re-evaluate data management in the organization and take steps to stay ahead of any issues. When leadership takes the lead on protecting your organization against IT and cybersecurity issues, there is a much better chance of your business staying protected.
Cross Link Consulting can be your helping hand in the IT and cybersecurity space. We help small businesses each day to stay on top of their data security and we can help your organization too. Give us a call at 803-279-1100 or email us at info@crosslinkconsulting.net
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