Rushing through process implementations, technology upgrades, and new hire training can cause botched executions and unnecessary confusion. Businesses must pursue the top technologies for scalability. This sustainable strategy allows them to grow smarter, not just faster. Sustainability in business is about being repeatable, adaptable and capable of scaling up and down as needed.
Sustainable scaling requires you to consider your people, processes, and technologies. Having the right technology on your side can help you scale your business up or down. But what technology should you consider introducing to your infrastructure to encourage flexible scaling?
Consider these technologies if you wish to take the path of scalability:
Learning management
Deploy a learning management system that incorporates anti-phishing training and allows you to customize your learning modules. Look for a solution with additional features such as:
- Multiple languages (ideal for global teams)
- Structured learning
- Engagement documentation (helpful when you’re required to prove every learner’s training completion)
- Automated reminders
- Centralization of information (ensuring critical training is not lost if crucial team members move on to other organizations).
IT documentation
Poor documentation can lead to unanticipated downtime, operational and performance issues, and revenue loss. It also wastes countless hours of employee time searching for information or guidance to solve simple IT problems.
IT processes must be optimized for performance, reliability and effectiveness to meet business expectations and security requirements. To achieve your top technology for scalability, thorough and transparent documentation is required to ensure and maintain proper configurations and processes.
Make sure the solution has the following features:
- Organized documentation
- Relationship mapping (link-related items so that you have access to all the information you require)
- Safe password management
- Enterprise-level security
- Capability to integrate with existing technologies at your business.
Security awareness training
A one-time training program will not help your employees defend themselves against cyber threats, nor will it help your company grow sustainably. Your employees require thorough and ongoing security awareness training to deal with the rapid changes around them.
Remember that the return on investment (ROI) on security awareness training manifests in better decision-making and employees who respond quickly to cyber threats, saving your company from data breaches, reputational damage and potentially costly lawsuits.
Through self-paced, short learning modules, every employee must know that even minor errors can snowball into a disastrous security disaster for the company.
Ongoing vulnerability scanning
Overlooking, even one vulnerability could escalate into something severe. More concerning is that, according to the IBM Cost of Data Breach report, it takes an average of 287 days to detect and contain a data breach.
Continuous vulnerability scanning can assist you in detecting and remediating vulnerabilities while freeing up your team’s time to focus on other tasks.
Vulnerability scanning that focuses on point-in-time reporting can only help your business up to a point since it can’t detect evolving vulnerabilities. Instead, try continuous vulnerability scanning that detects network vulnerabilities as soon as they appear.
Top technology success
Working with an expert partner like Cyology Labs, with our in-depth knowledge and expertise to guide you on your journey, is ideal.
If you’re a business owner, VP of IT or IT director and need to prioritize your SMBs agility strategy, please visit www.cyologylabs.com for a no-obligation consultation.
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