It might sound crazy, but sometimes I miss the Nigerian Prince. Back in the day, the threats were almost charming in their incompetence. You had the broken English, the bizarre formatting, and the royal promises that were so obviously fake they were almost funny. If you had even a shred of common sense, you were safe.
But those days are gone.
The mobile device is deeply ingrained in modern life, society, and culture, so it will be present in the workplace. This can be a very useful thing… with the right preparations, your employees can become a lot more mobile in terms of their potential productivity.
However, mobile work isn’t without its dangers. Perhaps the most obvious risk is that a device will be lost, whether it's left behind in a rideshare or pilfered as a latte is retrieved from the barista. Either way, your business will have suffered a data breach.
Let’s talk about how this outcome can be avoided with some proactive planning, thanks to mobile device management.
Let’s say that today was the day a cyberattack successfully infiltrated your business network. Not good, but if you have a proper data backup, you should be safe… unless the party responsible prioritizes deleting your backup files.
While we would never recommend a business skip the data backup process, it is important to recognize that traditional backups have this critical vulnerability. To remedy this, we do recommend implementing immutable backups.
With automated threats on the rise and taking over the cyberthreat landscape, you need as many ways to stay safe online as possible. Naturally, one of the most talked about topics is login security. There’s a lot of good password advice out there, but the most helpful piece isn’t repeated often enough: just make it longer.
When the time comes to upgrade any of your business tech, it makes sense that most of your attention would be on maximizing the value you get out of your new hardware. However, it is critical that you also continue to think about your discarded hardware… specifically, the data it contains.
In short, deleting files simply isn’t enough. You need to be confident that any information is truly purged or physically destroyed when you’re replacing your hardware.
