National Safety Month: 3 Simple Steps to Secure Businesses

When you are a business owner, you need a workable plan to make sure you get the protection you need against today's threats while also saving money and time. Many small business owners face the same threats as large enterprises when securing their businesses. Unfortunately, small businesses have limited budget for IT expenditures to fight with. Taking advantage of modern network security technologies can address this problem. Staying secure with more complicated technologies in today's world can be a struggle so here are some simple steps a business can take to ensure they stay secured:

Cutting cost of complexity is vital. This includes installing, using, managing and maintaining costs. As a small businessperson, you should be careful not to tie yourself with complicated technology, which will demand extensive training of your employees. Try to find the most cost-effective approaches in ensuring your business security. This will help you avoid unnecessary expenses, which could in turn debilitate the progress of your business. Ask a Sonitrol expert on what is best suited for your business. Call us TODAY at (859) 518-8263

Quality and Service are the two main factors in decision making with a security system. Regardless of expenses, the costliest system is one that fails when it is most needed. Keeping that in consideration, a surveillance system that is ideal for one business may not necessarily work at another business.  It’s for this reason that having trusted, reliable security professionals available to supply their knowledge and expertise on provided the required protections. The professionals at Sonitrol have the experience, knowledge and training to adequately assess what risks may be prevalent in your location. If you’d like to learn more, our technicians are available to perform a free consultation and security evaluation. 

It’s easier to protect rather than recover. Take prompt action to block threats before they enter. The most effective place to do this is the network perimeter. Threats easily enter your network through commonly used communication protocols used by many businesses. Threats can enter through emails, instant messaging, file sharing, games and utility programs. Since threats can enter through everyday used programs, ensure inspection at your gateway. It will be more difficult to try to remove malware that has already installed itself on your system. A complete and comprehensive inspection scans the entirety of data packages that come into the packet.