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IT support in San Antonio can be fundamental in helping your business shift to the cloud. The shift won’t happen instantaneously, however, and if you’re not careful, you could leave yourself wide open for operational compromise. A wise tactic involves identifying where common areas of vulnerability are and working to secure them.
MSPs that have worked with multiple diverse businesses are likely to have a perspective that can more easily recognize such instances of vulnerability and more effectively strengthen them. With that in mind, several common migration security strategies may include:
- Comprehensive framework understanding
- Institution of automatic testing
- Designing better security strategies
Comprehensive Framework Understanding
With IT support in San Antonio, you can migrate in fullest harmony as regards your network framework. A simple example might pertain to the operating system folder on your laptop. From that folder, essentially all which defines your computer’s operation is organized. Provided these files remain where they should be, your computer will operate as it should. However, if you delete some of these files, you could crash your computer. Virtually, all other files can be added or subtracted from your hard-drive, but if you erase the system folder, your computer will no longer be able to boot, and associated data will be lost. It’s the same with your network’s framework. You need to ensure that sensitive information is properly managed during the migration. An MSP can help you avoid mistakes.
Something else to consider is that older frameworks are more likely to retain flaws that were overcome in subsequent generations of tech. You don’t want to migrate these flaws to your new cloud-based system. MSPs can be instrumental in helping you both ensure framework integrity is preserved, and that which is undesirable is removed.
Instituting Automatic Testing
A testing protocol that is automatic and demonstrates operational integrity throughout the migration process can be instrumental in ensuring everything functions as it should. Automatic testing protocols, which vet your new framework as it is constructed, can be both more comprehensive and more accurate while being less time-consuming.
Designing Better Security Strategies
Your internal team needs to be educated in terms of security protocols, and you need to have your entire organization reviewed professionally in order to most entirely determine that which requires protection, as well as that which is sensitive enough to require specific maintenance protocols. Staff should be educated by professionals who can see your business from without, identifying areas of vulnerability you’d be unable to see otherwise.
Migration Support
IT support in San Antonio through ICS can help you more comprehensively secure operations during migration. Contact us now for more information.
Further reading
ICS is a Texas-based 40-year-old technology company specializing in Managed IT, VoIP, Video Conferencing and Video Surveillance solutions for US and International businesses. ICS has over 4000 regional installations and specializes in multi-site businesses between 25 and 2500 employees. ICS’s customers enjoy the experience of ICS’s Total Care program which provides clients flat fee services with obsolescence and growth protection. Whether a customer elects to deploy their IT, Video Conferencing or VoIP in the cloud or on the customer’s premise, ICS can provide a full turn-key solution for our clients under one flat monthly fee.