66% of small business owners need to hear our guests.

We have a great program for those small businesses dealing with today’s tech challenges, and the lack of an IT disaster recovery plan.

Let’s welcome back our friends of the podcast Mason Landrum, owner of Nice Guy Technology, and Alex West, a support technician, from Nice Guy Technology.

Earlier this year, Mason and his wife Mary joined us to discuss the tidal wave of technology that hit all of us during the pandemic. We were suddenly juggling home, work, school, family, and friends, all through zoom! Today we are going to delve into a different realm ~ issues that affect all businesses, and particularly smaller organizations - BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY.

Nice Guy Technology provides a great newsletter with wonderful guidance on technology issues plaguing users today – particularly small businesses. I’d like to quote something from one of your recent newsletters:

66% of small businesses with fewer than 100 employees have no tested business continuity or disaster recovery processes in place.”

What a frightening number! And these issues not only affect business owners, but all of us when you think of how much of our lives are stored on computers everywhere! Why haven’t businesses dealt with the issue?

We aren’t just talking about hackers and ransomware. Even natural disasters, or finding your equipment vulnerable to fire or other facility issues that could “turn your system off”. Mason and Alex define what business continuity should be and when disaster recovery kicks in.

When you’ve worked with small business clients, what consequences have occurred due to disasters with no plans in place? Are they able to recover?

Many business owners do not put the necessary time into their technology needs – after all, if the machines turn on every morning they must be ok! What is holding owners back from solid planning and implementation of recovery procedures?

One of the questions we discussed last time focused on the issues of workers staying home during the pandemic and the vulnerability of their own computers as well as the employer’s network. We cover some tips on how to keep your own home computers and devices safe, as well as tips for employers on how to avoid disastrous work-from-home situations.

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Recorded in Studio C at 511 Studios. A production of Circle270Media Podcast Consultants.