| What You’ll Discover in this White Paper | | | | business, you can’t deny the fact that they |
| • The single most expensive mistake most | | | | have a negative effect. If you recall the last time |
| small business owners make when it comes to | | | | you and your employees could not access |
| protecting their company data. • The universal | | | | necessary information, you must have some idea |
| misconception business owners have about their | | | | of the frustration and financial loss to your |
| computer networks, and how it can end up | | | | business, even if you haven’t put a pencil to |
| costing between $9,000 to as much as $60,000 in | | | | figuring out the exact cost. |
| damages. • 6 Critical security measures every | | | | Take a look at these statistics: |
| small business should have in place. • How to | | | | • Companies experience an average of 501 |
| greatly reduce - or even completely eliminate - | | | | hours of network downtime every year, and the |
| frustrating crashes, slow performance, and other | | | | overall downtime costs an average of 3.6% of |
| annoying computer problems. • How to avoid | | | | annual revenue. (Source: The Costs of Enterprise |
| expensive computer repair bills and get all the | | | | Downtime, Infonetics Research). |
| computer support you need for a low, fixed | | | | • 93% of companies that lost their data |
| monthly rate. | | | | center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed |
| Have You Ever Lost an Hour of Work on Your | | | | for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, |
| Computer? | | | | and 50% filed for bankruptcy immediately. |
| Now imagine if you lost days or weeks of work | | | | (Source: National Archives & Records |
| – or imagine losing your client database, | | | | Administration in Washington). |
| financial records, and all of the work files your | | | | • 20% of small to medium businesses will |
| company has ever produced or compiled. Imagine | | | | suffer a major disaster causing loss of critical data |
| what would happen if your network went down | | | | every 5 years. (Source: Richmond House Group). |
| for days, where you couldn’t access e-mail or | | | | • This year, 40% of small to medium |
| the information on your PC. How frustrating would | | | | businesses that manage their own network and |
| that be? Or, what if a major storm, flood, or fire | | | | use the Internet for more than e-mail will have |
| destroyed your office and all of your files? Or if a | | | | their network accessed by a hacker, and more |
| virus wiped out your server…do you have an | | | | than 50% won’t even know they were |
| emergency recovery plan in place that you feel | | | | attacked. (Source: Gartner Group). |
| confident in? How quickly do you think you could | | | | • Of those companies participating in the |
| recover, if at all? Many small business owners | | | | Contingency Planning & Management Cost of |
| tend to ignore or forget about taking steps to | | | | Downtime Survey: 46% said each hour of |
| secure their company’s network from these | | | | downtime would cost their companies up to |
| types of catastrophes until disaster strikes. By | | | | $50,000, 28% said each hour would cost between |
| then[,] it’s too late and the damage is done. | | | | $51,000 and $250,000, 18% said each hour would |
| But That Could Never Happen To Me! (And Other | | | | cost between $251,000 and $1 million, and 8% |
| Lies Business Owners Like To Believe About Their | | | | said it would cost their companies more than |
| Businesses…) | | | | $1million per hour. (Source: Cost of Downtime |
| After working with hundreds of small and mid-size | | | | Survey Results, 2001) . • Cyber-criminals stole |
| businesses, professional services firms and | | | | an average of $900 from each of 3 million |
| Schools in the Chicago area, we found that 6 out | | | | Americans in the past year, and that doesn’t |
| of 10 will experience some type of major | | | | include the hundreds of thousands of PCs |
| network or technology disaster. On average, each | | | | rendered useless by spyware. (Source: Gartner |
| of these incidents will end up costing them | | | | Group) To read the entire whitepaper please visit |
| between $9,000 and $60,000 in repairs and | | | | my site. |
| restoration costs. | | | | In 1987, Steve left his career as a CPA to take |
| That doesn’t include lost productivity, sales, | | | | the “easy” road of starting a networking |
| and client goodwill that are inevitably damaged | | | | VAR. Steve, his partners and staff have worked |
| when a company can’t operate or fulfill on its | | | | to grow Techcare to, be a successful and |
| promises due to technical problems. | | | | profitable company serving healthcare IT services |
| While it may be difficult to determine the actual | | | | chicago including the Creative and K-12 Education |
| financial impact computer problems have on your | | | | markets. |