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Businesses large and small must guard against outside threats each and every day. Businesses are constantly under attack and the weakest vulnerability will be exploited. These threats can come in all different forms from employees, hackers, or natural disasters. Each one can cause equal damage.

According to PC Magazine, “Forrester estimates that 39% of small businesses will “significantly upgrade their security environment” and 44% will “significantly upgrade their disaster recovery capabilities” this year.”

It’s even more important for small businesses to protect themselves from threats because the aftermath can be devastating.

The first step in protecting your small business is to have a Disaster Plan.

“According to the National Archives & Records Administration, 93 percent of companies that had trouble restoring their data after a disaster were out of business within 18 months.”

A disaster plan should include ways to prevent your data from being exploited. This can be done by defining proper policies within your company. It should also define how you are going to protect your data with procedure. If someone breaks your policy whether it be an employee, contract worker, or outside element you should have a procedure in place to make sure that data doesn’t get compromised. Finally, if your data is compromised, you need to be able to eliminate it from the public. If your proprietary information is being displayed on websites or other places on the Internet you need a plan to take that information down. This is where the services from webArgos becomes invaluable.

“With today’s technology and tools, keeping a business safe doesn’t have to be a difficult or time-consuming process.”