Michael D. Billok is an attorney with Bond, Schoeneck & King.

Courtesy Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC

By Michael D. Billok, Esq.

As a business owner or operator, there are always a half-dozen items that require your immediate attention, and then the dozens of other items on the “back burner” that you would like to get to when there is time–but there never seems to be time available.

Unless, of course, a back-burner item “blows up” and becomes a front-burner item, now requiring your immediate attention.

For small and mid-sized businesses, cybersecurity routinely is one such back-burner item, not getting the attention it deserves unless something does “blow up,” for example there is a hack, a data breach or some release of employee or customer personal information that now requires immediate attention. This is due to several common misconceptions about cybersecurity, such as:

• I’m small. I won’t be hacked or compromised. False.

Larger organizations have spent the past several years improving their cyber defenses to make it more difficult to access their data. As a result, hackers look to smaller organizations with less resources available to buttress their defenses as a jumping-off point to access larger organizations. Remember the national-news data breach at Target that occurred two years ago? Hackers didn’t directly “target” Target. They first hacked into an HVAC subcontractor’s network, and after compromising the subcontractor’s system they were then able to hack into Target utilizing the subcontractor’s access to Target’s network.

Craig Stephenson, administration, compliance manager, Tech II Business Services Inc.

Courtesy Tech II Business SErvices

By Craig Stephenson

Virtually every employee today has a smartphone. Many also have tablets, such as iPads and android devices. Most businesses are under utilizing these devices, because in most cases they belong to employees. These devices are BYOD, “bring your own device,” as they say.

Your hyper-connected employees are glued to their mobile devices, and savvy business owners and executives have realized the secret to higher employee productivity is embracing mobility and the BYOD trend. Find ways to help your staff work more, work smarter, and serve your clients better. The key is to empower the mobile experience of your staff, without compromising security and control of your corporate data.

Business-class file sync services can give you the best of both worlds however you need to be aware that all cloud services are not alike. One of the most popular cloud services has been hacked more than once and for those in the medical and financial industry, may find the compliance lacking. However Tech II Business services Cryodrive can allow your corporate data to be synced to employee mobile devices, without giving up control of your corporate data and remaining HIPAA compliant. Here’s how:

1. Sync to smartphones. Business-class cloud file sync services allow employees to sync their critical work files between their desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and the cloud.

Your staff becomes more nimble and productive when they have their files at their fingertips, no matter where they go. Whether it is iOS, android, or Windows Phone, business-class sync keeps users connected on the go.