When you are trying to keep your business safe from possible threats, it is understandable that you would want to be thorough. To that end, you might think to expand your sights beyond what you might currently think of coming under the umbrella of ‘business security’ to adopt a more holistic view.
While it might make your preparations more rigorous, the result is that you are refusing to let any vulnerability escalate into a situation damaging to your brand, business, or team.
1. Security Systems
Arguably the most important and prevalent of these options in the digital age is the security system that your business employs. This is not just about the company that you decide to partner with, but also the type of security that you use (such as cloud security) and how you work to improve this system when potential issues are detected. Using an MDR system, you can work with security experts to consistently monitor your defenses to this very end, allowing you to stay one step ahead.
2. Physical Security
If you have a physical place of business as opposed to an entirely remote model, you may well also want to ensure that your physical security is up to snuff. For offices that house a number of different businesses, there is often on-site security, but otherwise it could be more dependent on you to arrange. You want you and your team to feel as though only they are allowed access to the premises if it’s an office, and if it’s more of a hospitality venue where customers are coming in and out, you want to make sure that there are staff premises that are perhaps secured with a keypad or something similar.
3. Data Protection Regulations
You likely gather so much data throughout your routine operations that you take it for granted. You might use a lot of this data to improve your marketing or better deliver your services, but it is important that you’re doing everything you should be doing to keep this data safe. That also means that you have to ensure you’re complying with regulations about how long you hold onto this data – disposing of it in the proper way when the time is right. Failing to do so could potentially harm customer trust in your brand, especially in the case of a breach or something similar.
4. Employee Safety
Throughout each of these options, you are going to want to consider your employee safety. Their private data is also important and they would be impacted by any breaches to your digital or physical security. However, it might also be that they feel as though they are not safe even within your own premises – especially in the cases of harassment or other types of toxic workplace behavior. To create a safe and comfortable space, you need to be firm about how you respond to this, and ready to assure employees that you’re serious about taking such steps.
