Summer brings lighter schedules, more time out of office, and, hopefully, a vacation. But while your employees take breaks, cyberthreats don’t. In fact, hackers often increase activity during slower months, knowing that staff are stretched thin or distracted. This makes summer an ideal time to ensure your business has the right IT safeguards in place.
Start with the basics: Are your backups running and tested? Do you have clear protocols for covering out-of-office employees’ responsibilities—especially for key roles like billing, vendor communication, or IT approval processes? And if your team is using public Wi-Fi while working remotely, do they have secure VPN access? We help businesses prepare for all of this: from enforcing multi-factor authentication to monitoring your network 24/7 so that no one needs to be “on call” while they’re away.
Many organizations also bring in interns or temporary staff during the summer. While this can be a great way to get extra help, it can also introduce security risks if access isn’t properly managed. We can help you set up temporary logins, enforce appropriate permissions, and make sure new users aren’t inadvertently given access to sensitive systems or data. Just as important, we can help ensure those accounts are promptly disabled when they’re no longer needed.
If you haven’t done a mid-year IT checkup, now’s the time. Summer is slow for some industries, and that makes it a good time to consider upgrades, security audits, or cloud migrations—without disrupting daily operations. Reach out to us if you’d like to schedule a quick review before vacation mode kicks in.
