IT INSecurities

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Main Points Performing an IT Health Assessment is necessary because you have to periodically inspect the work that your IT guys are doing. People will respect what you inspect. Make sure that you aren’t being cornered by terms you don’t understand. Welcome! To another episode of IT Insecurities the show dedicated to helping you as a business owner conquer your insecurities about information technology by giving you the information you need to succeed.  MY Name is Nathan Zimmer, the self proclaimed Geek Speak Guru and Tech Talk Translator  coming to you today from an undisclosed location here in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is currently 4:11 AM on a Saturday.   I am amped and excited today to bring you some more knowledge you can’t get in college, and I would know… but my goal is to talk about boring things  in a way that won’t leave you bored or confused.  If you haven’t already checked out our previous podcast you can by clicking the link below. The Importance of Systems: Why we do what we do On today’s show we break down “IT Health Assessments.  Why do we need them?” and look at what the Security Breach stats from Forbes really mean for you as a small business owner.   Why do we need an assessment? There is some business owner out there who is asking even now why do I need to do an assessment? My business is running fiiiiiine. Well dear listener I’m glad you ask, I would direct you to the stats. I have with me today a few numbers that could be shocking. 59% of organizations experienced at least one outage over 12 months Spiceworks (October 2018)IT Disaster Recovery Planning & Services40% of small businesses never reopen after a disasterGovTech/FEMA (July 2018)IT Disaster Recovery Planning & Services So the answer to why you need this would be you don’t if you want to permanently dissolve your business.   But according to 2017 Disaster Recovery Statistics that Businesses Must Take Seriously 96% of companies survive ransomware if they have a reliable BC/DR solution  I have a report published back in August of 2019 and here’s the title… Data Breaches Expose 4.1 Billion Records In First Six Months Of 2019 Today I want to break down these horrifying stats and see 3 specific action steps we can take to mitigate the risk of your business being one of these companies affected. “According to Risk Based Security research newly published in the 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report, the first six months of 2019 have seen more than 3,800 publicly disclosed breaches exposing an incredible 4.1 billion compromised records. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that 3.2 billion of those records were exposed by just eight breaches. As for the exposed data itself, the report has email (contained in 70% of breaches) and passwords (65%) at the top of the pile.” This is crazy. Many of these breaches occur but without some form of IT Health Assessment the business would never know its records were even compromised. “The majority of breaches reported this year had a moderate to low severity score,” the report stated and exposed 10,000 or fewer records. This is important because many businesses wrongly assume they are too small to be on the radar of the threat actors. The truth is that it is all about the data, and small businesses often have less well-guarded data stores. Your average cyber-criminal is lazy and will scrape up any data exposed by running automated online scripts looking for unsecured databases. The big breaches make the headlines, but bread and butter everyday incidents make the money for most threat actors out there. Overview Determine where you are at.  Perform an IT Health AssessmentBuild a plan.  Get everyone in the room from all areas and disciplinesReference Bill CambellHold employees accountableTrain on proceduresUse the quote from forbes

Main Points Without the proper technology and implementation of that technology your business is left vulnerable and made unproductive.  Aaaaaayyyy-oooooo.  My name is Nathan Zimmer and welcome to IT INSecurities where we break down businesses and business owner’s worst IN-Securities as it relates to IT and show you how to tackle them with the proven moves. We will break down the importance of systems and why we do what we do. I’m joined here with my co host and geek speak translator Matthew Zimmer as we look today at “The Importance of systems and Why we do what we do.”   So Matthew tell me do you always translate Tech Talk or is this just something you do on your saturdays? Tell us a little bit about the podcast.  Why are we doing this? Is it just because I know people will want to listen to all my IT horror stories? IT is the only field where you are actually looked at as being more qualified if you are younger.  Over the years we’ve worked with a variety of businesses in a variety of industries and have developed what we affectionately call our Motion Management System or “The System” for short.   It’s a 6 step process.  Matthew can you break down for us the first step in this process? Step 1: IT Assessment The first step is to perform a FREE IT assessment for all businesses that express any interest in working with us. Why? Do this because we want to show the potential growth.  I started out working for my father when I was about 14 doing odds and ends, and I remember asking him where would be a good place to start learning something about IT?  I didn’t know what I didn’t know.  Half the battle is learning what you don’t know so that you can implement it, and that’s really what we are all about.  So I asked my father and what do you think he said Matthew? He gave me that book right in front of you.  Open it up and take a look at it. Just pick a random place to read.  Royalty Free Music – Funny/Goofy Music for Gaming/Short Films Page 89 A+ Certification For Dummies Patrick – I’ll Have Uhhhh That’s what happens when we read tech reports.  It’s a scientific fact tested by years and years of experiments.  “There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action – I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary. If there is an existing acronym that cannot reasonably be justified, it should be eliminated, as I have requested in the past.For example, there should be not “HTS” [horizontal test stand] or “VTS” [vertical test stand] designations for test stands. Those are particularly dumb, as they contain unnecessary words. A “stand” at our test site is obviously a test stand. VTS-3 is four syllables compared with “Tripod”, which is two, so the bloody acronym version actually takes longer to say than the name!” Acronyms Seriously Suck – Elon Musk Action Steps Whenever possible remove unneeded acronyms and jargon that doesn’t make sense.  Make your IT staff communicate with you. Many times business owners are left in the dark because they don’t interact with their IT staff in a meaningful way.   Step 2: Stan