Security

The VCIT data center is located in a secure facility featuring 24×7 security guards, closed circuit cameras, secure access cards, fire suppression systems, climate control, and backup power systems.  

In contrast, a typical small business computer system is vulnerable to theft, fire, flood and other risks that can cripple your business and have devastating consequences.

Because all applications and data reside in the VCIT data center, none of your critical data is stored on the access computers. Therefore, the impact of theft, fire, flood and other disasters is greatly diminished since you can quickly get up and running again using off the shelf computers, tablets, or even a smartphone.  

Also, our comprehensive backup systems ensure that your data is always backed up, giving you peace of mind should disaster strike. We take snapshots of your documents multiple times a day, perform nightly differential backups, weekly full backups, monthly offsite encrypted backups, and replicate those backups to our DR site too.

You have the flexibility to choose which staff can copy company data to local devices. This security measure prevents disgruntled employees from stealing sensitive information without your knowledge.

You decide who has access to which company data and applications and we take care of implementing all of the technical details. This security measures prevents data theft and ensures that employees only have access to the job specific resources they need and nothing else.

If any of your existing systems need to be accessed over the Internet, you must open up a hole in your on premise firewall. However, typical small business class firewall systems do nothing to prevent “denial of service” attacks and other sophisticated attacks.  

In contrast, our enterprise class firewall systems allow your staff to safely connect to resources over the Internet while mitigating the risk of attack.

The VCIT data center is staffed by IT professionals who constantly monitor our systems and proactively deal with Windows hotfixes, security patches, application patches, upgrades, anti-virus definitions, and other maintenance issues to ensure that you are protected against the latest exploits and vulnerabilities.

Computers are a favorite target of thieves and loss of your precious data could be far more costly than replacing the hardware. Even if you have good backups, it could take days to completely restore your computer systems.

According to a ComputerWorld survey, 81% of respondents stated that they had either lost or had stolen a company laptop in the past 12 months. Futhermore, an Intel funded study put the average cost of a notebook loss at $50,000!  

Clearly, getting your valuable information off of portable device hard drives should be a top priority. VCIT Cloud Apps and Desktops solves this problem by centralizing all of your company data in a high security data center.

Consider the potential risk to your business if an employee copied your customer database to a USB flash drive, quit, and then took a job with a competitor.

What would happen if a disgruntled employee decided to do some damage?

Most retail firewall appliances can selectively block or allow access to computer resources within your local network. However, that’s no longer good enough. For example, suppose your firewall allows web traffic through to your Microsoft Small Business Server so your employees can access email over the web.  

With a typical retail firewall appliance, an attacker could repeatedly connect to the server and either crash it (denial of service attack) or run a password guessing program against it. In either case, a cheap retail firewall would neither detect nor prevent the attack.

Tape backups are notoriously unreliable yet very few companies regularly restore data to test them. Also, most companies only backup the data on their server, despite the fact that employees frequently store corporate data on their local hard drives.

According to a leading vendor of data recovery software, more than a third of businesses experience some sort of data loss each year.  

Statistics show that a majority of businesses that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year of the incident.

Microsoft has released hundreds of Windows system patches for vulnerabilities that an attacker can exploit to gain control of your computers or cause damage. If your computers aren’t properly maintained then viruses, spyware, and rootkits can exploit these weaknesses, potentially costing you thousands of dollars.

Multi-layered protection against viruses, spyware, and spam at the network, server, and workstation levels is needed to properly protect your computer systems. A single layer of protection isn’t going to fully protect your business resources since no single security measure can block everything.