Security: another of the list of items of concern to business owners

Technology is a wonderful thing. It creates new opportunities to build a global business from your home. All businesses need computers today, most jobs require computers to get things done, and yet many people pass the job of managing computers to junior staff.

It's understandable that business owners don't want to do the drudge work. Unless you get excited by doing a lot of routine activities, managing computers is not exciting work. It also gets in the way of managing your business. You want to get customers, make sales, bring in revenue. Sometimes, it's hard to relate computer activities to managing your business. The most important ones are the routine ones, the ones that we forget, or don't understand the implications.

This list of security related issues affect most small businesses. They affect large ones too, but large businesses have people who focus on this. In a small business, the buck stops at the business owner. It doesn't mean that the business owner has to be involved every day, but has to make decisions on these issues and ensure that somebody is covering it (either staff or a supplier). If not, the risk is loss of data, loss of productivity and in many cases, loss of a business.