iuvo Technologies hosted our second IT Network Meeting for CCUA members this past Tuesday, and let me tell you, it was a bad day to be a Lenovo laptop (more on that later).
Bryon Beilman started by highlighting how iuvo continues to share common values with credit unions. Providing better products for their customers and elevated levels of customer service is an obsession of CCUA members and iuvo. Bryon established an environment where attendees could collaborate and share information in a unique free-flowing exchange of knowledge. Chris Russo proceeded to delve into the necessity of having multi-layered infrastructure security. He covered everything from protecting your company's critical information with great parallels with castles and orc invasions. Yet, he forgot to cover one bit of crucial information: hammer and blunt force trauma protection.
Having a lone assailant or disgruntled employee take out your company's core systems with a rubber hammer is unlikely. The same goes for a natural disaster strike that causes you to hemorrhage money and data due to downtime. The real danger is people, more specifically YOUR people (for SMBs, 12% of employees will open a phishing email, AND proceed to click on a malicious link). Chris continued to give an overview of the current security status and threats, while thematically illustrating, hence the few castle references, each specific infrastructure security layer and its functions. Your company should have a multi-layered security system in place. If it does, great! But if you don't, an insider could simply give away the keys to the castle, and then your security plan will become useless. See these two articles on firewalls and anti-virus for two simple examples of why one layer is not good enough. Business continuity solutions incorporated into the fabric of your infrastructure security are the last layer in this defense model.
It is no secret how iuvo feels about datto. They understand that mistakes will be made, but there is no reason to let them ruin your day, quarter, or business. In this case the mistake made was assault with a deadly weapon against an unsuspecting laptop running the presentation. Years of pent up rage due to freezes, poor connections, and spam was released upon this machine. It was a true homage to the printer scene from Office Space.
(View the slow-motion IT carnage here.)
The whole presentation was captured on both the local device and datto cloud, and it was running on a new laptop before the chalk outline could be drawn around the victim. We were back in business, and able to finish out the meeting. Do you think your company could hold up to a true disaster? Check out our Recovery Time Calculator to find out. For more information on our Business Continuity or Computer Security Services, be sure to check out our links in this article.