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Using technology properly will support your people and processes for optimal scalability. Rushing through process implementations, technology upgrades and new hires can be a recipe for disaster. Focusing on a sustainable strategy allows your organization to grow smarter, not just faster. It is all about being repeatable, adaptable, and scaling up and down as needed.
A sustainable scaling strategy requires a business to incorporate people, processes, and technology. Having the right technology stack can help you scale with ease, empowering people and processes.
Technologies that Support Scalability
Consider these technologies to support your business’s smart scalability strategy:
Managing Employee Training Programs
Implementing a learning management system that includes anti-phishing training with customized modules will give your employees the education they need to make good decisions and protect the organization. Features to consider include:
- Structured Learning: This is valuable in ensuring the best learning path for your employees.
- Engagement Documentation: This will maintain the history of what your employees go thru and when and will help with compliance to prove each individual’s training completion. Reporting will make it easier for management to keep employees on track.
- Automated Reminders: These allow you to and your team to not miss a required training.
- Centralized Information Storage: This will ensure crucial training is not lost if members move on to other organizations, while making management more efficient.
IT Documentation
Unanticipated downtime, operational issues, depleted performance, and ultimately revenue loss due to employees spending countless hours wasting time searching for guidance to solve IT problems can be avoided with good documentation.
IT processes should be optimized for performance, reliability and effectiveness to meet business goals and security requirements. Transparent managed documentation of configurations and processes will help your employees remain productive and maintain optimal system performance. When implementing a document management solution, consider these features:
- Organized Documentation
- Relationship Mapping – so you can link items together and have all of the information in one place.
- Safe Password Management
- Enterprise-level Security
- Integration capability with existing technologies
Security Awareness Training
A one-time training program won’t cut in todays world. New cyberthreats appear everyday, and you must provide employees with ongoing security awareness to help them defend themselves against the evolving threats. Your return on investment (ROI) manifest in better decision-making and employees who can respond quickly to cyber threats, saving your company from loss of data, reputational damage, and potentially costly lawsuits. In addition, an awareness program can lessen your Cybersecurity Insurance.
Though self-paced, short learning modules, every employee should be made aware of even the minor errors that can snowball into a disasters security breach for the company. You can expect that employees know what to look for.
Ongoing Vulnerability Scanning
According to the IBM Cost of Data Breach report, it takes an average of 287 days to detect and contain a data breach. A single vulnerability can leave your company exposed. Regular vulnerability scanning can help you detect and remediate vulnerabilities old and new quicker. Even better, continuous scanning will alert you immediate vulnerabilities.
