Walk the Talk: Honest feedback from an Entrepreneur

 

 

Data will be the new crude. It will have tremendous competitive value and necessarily accessible at the fingertips of employees’ laptops, mobiles and desktops. Its already started with Tesla, Amazon, Google, Uber who have fired many employees for conspiring Data Leakage and Theft. We, the SMEs are not so resourceful as these giants are. Our data in the form of Designs, Drawings, Documents, Cost Sheets, ERP Data, Tenders, Customer Data, NDA bound Information and whatever you can think of. You cannot naturally and practically monitor every act of data ex-filtration. In my opinion, to deal with such serious matter, SMEs will have to focus on control rather than monitoring. SMEs will have to invest in systems which can devise controls on majority of employees and can monitor minority of employees who cannot be subjected to controls due to their position, work requirements, and seniority. Maximum Controls and Minimum Monitoring will be the new mantra to prevent data theft and leakage. It will protect enterprise from competitive exploitation (due to data leakage to competitors), minimize liabilities (due to NDA breach or privacy breach) and transfer liabilities on the doer by strong evidence creation capabilities.

 

 

You need to take liability insurance and keep your systems strong enough to be able to provide evidence in case breach is done by your own employee. The premium you pay for these liability cover will depend on how strong Data Leakage and Theft Prevention Systems you have implemented in your enterprise. Check this video for your own understanding.

 

 

 

Most SMEs are happy having 2 hard disks inside the server, one for use and one for backup. This will have to change. Ransomware / Calamities / Disaster / Hardware Failure are the situation which can lead to irrecoverable loss of data. We will have to go level next by compressing, encrypting and transferring our data out of premise daily. The same holds true for Laptops which carries invaluable digital assets of the company.

 

 

You need to have an off premise infrastructure to keep your data on your laptops, servers, and desktops. It must be encrypted and compressed. Check this video for your own understanding.

 

 

 

Indian legal system has started recognizing CopyRight violation as a very serious crime and demonstrated zero tolerance off late recently. Piracy of software which was so easy in India is not extremely difficult and punitive measures are good enough to stop the business in no time. SMEs will have to avoid using pirated software. Many a times SMEs use pirated software even if they don’t need them, just because they are cheap. There will be all new world of alternative systems to be adopted to run your business instead of using pirated software.

 

 

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