If you’re unsure of your current vulnerabilities, it’s likely your company has not had a security audit in the past year.
If you’re receiving annual statements from your business partners requesting that you to meeting their cybersecurity and compliance standards, it’s absolutely vital that you consider having an external annual cybersecurity audit to review your organization.
If you’re storing sensitive client information, processing credit cards, or having your team connect to your network remotely, it’s time to consider a security audit.
The first step is determining your budget: remember, earmarking 5% of overall business expenses to go towards your IT is a good (minimum!) rule of thumb. An investment of 10-15% would go a long way for companies in need of dire remediation in the short-term (hardware, software, service), but we are small business owners serving small business owners and always strive to meet our clients at their budget.
The next step, once you have that magic number (even better if it is a range), is to start contacting providers!
KnowIT provides audit services to small businesses at a flat-rate, producing a roadmap of what assets and systems need the most attention to alleviate your risk.
Many are struggling during 2020 and finding even 5% for 2021’s budget to dedicate to IT might be difficult and can connect you with financing options to assist.
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