Small Business IT Fundementals
Mar 25, 2022

Small Business IT Fundementals

In the United States, the number of small businesses totals to over 95% of all businesses. The small business community produces around 50% of our nation’s Gross National Product (GNP) and creates around 50% of all new jobs in our country. Small businesses, therefore, are a very important part of our nation’s economy.However, many small businesses have not developed a proper IT strategy to appropriately, manage and secure their information, systems, and networks.We put together a simple checklist, that all small businesses can use as a guide to determine gaps and next steps in their IT strategy.The “Absolutely necessary” actions

  • Protect information/systems/networks from damage by viruses, spyware, and other malicious code.
  • Provide security for your Internet connection.
  • Install and activate software firewalls on all your business systems.
  • Patch your operating systems and applications.
  • Make backup copies of important business data/information.
  • Control physical access to your computers and network components.
  • Secure your wireless access point and networks.
  • Train your employees in basic security principles.
  • Require individual user accounts for each employee on business computers and for business applications.
  • Limit employee access to data and information, and limit authority to install software.

Highly Recommended

  • Utilize a password manager
  • How to dispose of old computers and media.
  • How to protect against Social Engineering.

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