On the Importance of Network Security When Choosing Outsourced IT Managed Servic

Posted by BIOS Technologies on June 11th, 2016

There are many good reasons for choosing to outsource your IT services, but none is more essential to your company’s success than network security. Outsourcing your company’s IT managed services provides you with a number of notable advantages over handling them in house, including cloud services, regular software upgrades, data backups and regular system maintenance. However, when you look at the big picture, the most valuable services offered by an IT managed services provider may be 24 hour network monitoring and all of the other network security services that they provide.

Protecting your company’s data is a high priority for any business. In fact, you may say that securing your company’s data is not really optional, but actually a requirement if you hope to keep your business information secure. Data is the life blood of any business, flowing through your network to all of the various departments that make up your company. When your network goes down or network security is compromised, it can disrupt your ability to do business, resulting in a reduced productivity and loss of revenue. When your network is down all of the work being done in your office and all other departments grinds to a sudden halt. Instead of a thriving productive office, you have frustrated employees sitting at their desks getting paid while waiting to get back to work. Work stoppages, down time and data integrity issues can all be reduced or effectively eliminated by outsourcing your company IT managed services to a cloud computing company.

Technology is constantly changing and as times change so do the software and hardware systems that we use to access our business data. At one time, desktop PC’s were the only means by which your employees could access your company’s data, but today, with the rapid development of Internet technology, mobile technology and cloud computing, it has become possible to access company data from a wide variety of devices, including smart phones, tablets and other mobile computing devices. While this improvement in technology has made data more accessible to our employees, it has also given hackers other avenues by which they can compromise the integrity of our company’s information. For this reason, it is essential to hire an IT managed services company to improve and continually monitor your company’s network to meet and deal with ever changing threats.

Outsourcing your IT to a cloud computing and managed IT services company offers nearly unlimited potential benefits. IT support services, including system maintenance, regular upgrades and full time network monitoring requires constant attention. Hiring IT staff in house to perform such a task means that you will have to pay employees to be in the office even when everyone else has gone home, including nights, weekends and even on holidays. This is an expensive prospect -- much more expensive than hiring an IT managed services company to provide network monitoring and other essential network security services.