Large corporations get the headlines, but 43% of hacks happen to small businesses. Many small businesses go under within months of an incident. If your business is a victim of a cybersecurity breach, you need to act quickly.
The threat of a cybersecurity breach will keep any business owner up at night. Cybersecurity isn’t part of the day-to-day routine for most business leaders. However, the threat of a breach is more significant than ever thanks to an increasingly digital economy. Here are the top cybersecurity threats that businesses need to protect against.
Going into 2021, small businesses are focusing on increasing their online presence, building an online sales platform (e-commerce), and maintaining communication with employees, vendors, and customers. The COVID-19 pandemic is behind much of this focus and is driving companies to look to digital solutions to the ways they do business. It is also presenting a growing threat -- cybersecurity.
Last year, we helped you understand the need for custom software, and then we gave you some reasons to do it. You might be convinced that this year, your business will benefit from the right software. But now, you’re waiting for the right moment. Knowing when to go custom is a matter of business goals, budget, and timeline.
Many small businesses have had to make significant changes to their operations and products. Some have entered the digital realm and others have had to deal with adapting to a remote workforce. Regardless, IT is changing for small businesses in 2021. Let’s take a look at how.
Many small businesses are reluctant to pull that digital trigger and undergo the digital transformation of their processes and products. Going down that road is a long process. You’ll need a strategy but you also don’t want to get left behind and you see the opportunities that a digital transformation brings, including mere survival in these times of a pandemic. When is the right time to make this change?
Improving business performance with custom software means keeping your team focused on what’s important, eliminating wasted time, and streamlining your processes. When you set measurable goals, track your progress, and introduce new efficiencies with your software, your business’s performance will improve. Let’s dive in a bit deeper.
COVID-19 is showing businesses the need to adapt and adapt quickly. As they adapt, their software needs to change with them. Custom software, in fact, needs to play an integral role in aiding the business in making these changes.
Your custom software needs to do one thing well. The right strategic focus on your software creates the foundation for your software and technology plan and enables your team to maximize the benefits of a solution custom-built for your company.
If you have decided to move your business forward with a custom software strategy, there is one element of the project that does not involve digital wizardry but is essential to protecting your investment, and that's the custom software agreement.
Software can feel like a new car -- outdated the day you drive off the lot -- especially when you implement bad software. Software is supposed to enable, empower and optimize helping you achieve your business goals. That’s why friends don’t let friends use bad software.
As the primaries rolled through this spring with the threat of
coronavirus hanging over the voters and poll workers, we all probably
had the same thought. Why can’t we vote on our phones or computers?
Great idea. We believe the future of elections will be an application
for online elections.