Friday, March 27, 2009
Finally Small Business IT Security
After twenty years of dealing with the lack of information security in small business things have really started to change. One of the critical benefits of full Cloud Services for IT resources comes from moving the core IT operations for SMBs to secure and fully managed enterprise data centers. Up to now the cost of maintaining IT infrastructure security has been too expensive for even fairly large businesses to handle consistently. It simply takes too many highly trained professionals to implement and maintain real IT security without completely messing up operations. So what are the specific security improvements that small business can see in Cloud Computing Services?
By moving a businesses data and applications into a highly secure environment accessable only via Virtual Private Network connections is a huge increase in security. The small business usually has little idea where their data is stored on the local area daisy chain of PCs and shared drives. Finding a critical file, not to mention the correct version of that file, can take hours. And, of course, sometimes the employees simply take the files home and then forget them. How much small business data is scattered over offices and household PCs is anyone's guess.The loss of time and missed business opportunities probably total millions of dollars every month. Outsourcing to the Cloud can pay for the subscription fees in data security alone.
A rarely understood point of security for SMBs is inherent mixing of personal and business applications and data on employees PCs in the office. This is the largest source of security holes, malware,viruses,trojans,and spam bots in the business world. Creating a distinct and Cloud based desktop file system for work files only protected by managed security policies can effectively eliminate much of this danger. Of course this only applies if the work environment is fully outsourced to the Cloud. Simply using Cloud file servers with VPN scripts on office PCs leaves the lack of security on those PCs to affect the entire business system just as it does now for most small businesses. That's why we strongly advise using both Islanda® Cloud Workstations and Servers for a complete IT outsource. The security alone is worth the money.
Using an Islanda® Cloud Desktop with software VPN client is the other great security savior. How many laptops are lost or stolen each year? How many sleepless nights, and in the worst case, careers are lost because critical files e.g.financial information gets into the wrong hands via stolen laptops? If all of our work files and applications are on an Islanda® Cloud Workstation virtual desktop it doesn't matter if the laptop is stolen. No files are on that hard drive or in that system. For work it is strictly a thin client with no local storage. Whatever personal files are on that laptop when it is run as a standalone PC is another matter but by keeping business files and applications in the data center a very large load can be taken off of each traveling employees shoulders. And if the laptop is stolen and the presentation is lost the employee needs only a script on a CD sent via an email to login to his or her desktop fomr any Internet connected PC anywhere on the planet.
Now that's security!
By moving a businesses data and applications into a highly secure environment accessable only via Virtual Private Network connections is a huge increase in security. The small business usually has little idea where their data is stored on the local area daisy chain of PCs and shared drives. Finding a critical file, not to mention the correct version of that file, can take hours. And, of course, sometimes the employees simply take the files home and then forget them. How much small business data is scattered over offices and household PCs is anyone's guess.The loss of time and missed business opportunities probably total millions of dollars every month. Outsourcing to the Cloud can pay for the subscription fees in data security alone.
A rarely understood point of security for SMBs is inherent mixing of personal and business applications and data on employees PCs in the office. This is the largest source of security holes, malware,viruses,trojans,and spam bots in the business world. Creating a distinct and Cloud based desktop file system for work files only protected by managed security policies can effectively eliminate much of this danger. Of course this only applies if the work environment is fully outsourced to the Cloud. Simply using Cloud file servers with VPN scripts on office PCs leaves the lack of security on those PCs to affect the entire business system just as it does now for most small businesses. That's why we strongly advise using both Islanda® Cloud Workstations and Servers for a complete IT outsource. The security alone is worth the money.
Using an Islanda® Cloud Desktop with software VPN client is the other great security savior. How many laptops are lost or stolen each year? How many sleepless nights, and in the worst case, careers are lost because critical files e.g.financial information gets into the wrong hands via stolen laptops? If all of our work files and applications are on an Islanda® Cloud Workstation virtual desktop it doesn't matter if the laptop is stolen. No files are on that hard drive or in that system. For work it is strictly a thin client with no local storage. Whatever personal files are on that laptop when it is run as a standalone PC is another matter but by keeping business files and applications in the data center a very large load can be taken off of each traveling employees shoulders. And if the laptop is stolen and the presentation is lost the employee needs only a script on a CD sent via an email to login to his or her desktop fomr any Internet connected PC anywhere on the planet.
Now that's security!
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