How to protect your business assets, data, and property using the best technology in 2020
Your Data is One of the Biggest Assets you Have
One of the best and foolproof methods to protect your business’s well-being is investing in solutions to protect your company’s assets whether being data, or physical property. With so many options to choose from and so many methods to accomplish these goals, Pueblo Tech can help guide you in the right direction. Using Pueblo Tech’s consulting services will help you get the level of security that fits your business and your budget. Often sensitive data or financial records or spreadsheets can be exposed to employees or prying eyes that should not have the privileges of viewing this information. Beyond these unforeseen hazards can be the exposing of this data to the outside world. Without following basic security practices, businesses may wind up being targeted by cyber criminals more easily. If you become targeted by cyber criminals or hackers, it might take the focus of your team away for a few days to a week to deal with closed bank accounts and credit cards attached to revolving services aiding in the interruption of your workflow and in the worst scenario data loss. Pueblo Tech can test how your company handles its data and guide you into best practices, whether it’s user behavior, hardware or software vulnerabilities to secure your valuable information. Disaster recovery and mitigation are of utmost importance. Does your company have a disaster recovery plan if a fire, flood, theft, or other unforeseen circumstances like vandalism impacts your computer systems? If you lose your company’s information in an unforeseen event, could you bounce back swiftly? Unfortunately, insurance companies can’t replace data. These kinds of situations can be easily avoided by implementing Pueblo Tech as your IT systems provider. Pueblo Tech’s focus is on protecting their number one asset, which is you!
Track Your Physical Assets
Asset tracking starts with software. If you own a business where tools, equipment, and or supplies are stored but there aren’t any official logs or software to document where it all is then sometimes a growing business will have difficult times trying to understand where their money is going. For instance, let’s say you have several locations and they supply each of these locations with paper towels for internal use. Without software warning that one of the locations is ordering five times the amount that they normally should or an easy way to view these kinds of reports over time, you can become vulnerable or complacent in over-site leading to profit loss. We can’t always rely on an employee’s memory to track these kinds of activities daily, especially as your business grows. That’s where software comes in. Software can also help with taxation purposes by keeping an inventory of the assets your location has. When the software is up-kept by an administrative person, they will add, remove, or make changes as the location evolves. For example, location X needs new LED light bulbs, so the administrative person can input into software the expense that location endured for the changing of the light bulbs while adding the items to the ledger of property that belongs there. This can help with insurance evaluations. Software based asset tracking systems help your accountants calculate profit margins or where the losses are. These are common instances where an (ERP) or Enterprise Resource Planning software implementation can help you. Further more the software helps to prevent the situation where employees might take advantage of a relaxed ordering environment for supplies used for business internally but are being taken home or resold. This kind of behavior, if left unchecked depending on your scenario, can cost a small business hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year.
According to statistics the top source of inventory shrinkage are
- Employee Theft – 42.7%
- Shoplifting – 35.6%
- Administrative – 15.4%
- Vendor Fraud – 3.7%
- Unknown 3.9%
The amount stolen annually from U.S. businesses by employees amounts to a whopping– $50 billion!
Physical Asset Tracking and Surveillance
Does your business have assets that move like automobiles, machinery, or hardware? Pueblo Tech’s experience with all walks of life servicing the business-to-business environment makes us a great fit when you’re looking for the correct software or hardware solutions that help you keep tabs on your property or assets.
The ability to track what’s happening in your company can be a hard choice for leaders. Typically, any business with morals values privacy and wants to trust the employees they hire. Sometimes the people who we expect to be working in the best interest for us can lose track of right and wrong and prioritize themselves. Here’s how you fill the gap of uncertainty. By installing security systems for your company provided by Pueblo Tech you can easily monitor daily activities and with the correct systems combination you can unify or interconnect software to oversee behaviors before it causes major losses for you. The good news is that in the last 10 years technology services in this sector have evolved at a rapid pace and are hyper competitive. Services like GPS tracking, RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tracking, video surveillance analytics, body cameras, dash cams, biometrics and remote sensors have all become an affordable reality for even small businesses. This area of business control is highly competitive and more affordable than ever offering a wide variety of service levels and pricing to fit your needs. Pueblo Tech’s consulting and planning makes sure you can sleep easy knowing you’ve done everything within your budget to get the level of security you’re needing to move forward in whatever industry it is that you’re perusing. Pueblo Tech will help you with research and development, installation, and training for all your company’s security needs, even premise security.
Time Tracking
Employee time theft rises each year. Without providing or implementing fool proof ways to track your employees time you could be losing thousands a year. Pueblo Tech can help solve employee time manipulation concerns by implementing GPS systems for the service industry or bio-metric fingerprint reading time-clock devices to prevent phantom time punching. Often times we can find employees rallying around themselves clocking in employees when they’re late or want to leave early or taking a longer than usual lunch break etc. By forcing the employees to use their unique fingerprint or being able to physically see where a service person is by GPS logging you can cut down on these kinds of behaviors. The added benefit is more accurate time and attendance tracking with a cloud based dashboard giving your administrative personnel the flexibility and control from anywhere in the world. With modernized time and attendance solutions you can avoid employees accusations of favoritism or “rules for the but not for me” which will provide a sense of fairness for all involved leading to a healthier environment for your team to thrive.
