🔒🕒 Before you log off for the long weekend, give your systems a fast 3‑step lock‑down. In ten minutes, you can close the most obvious doors hackers look for when offices are quiet and leadership is out of reach. Think of it as your end‑of‑week safety drill before you hit that out‑of‑office reply.
- First, check your network and services. Make sure your firewall, router, and key servers are running smoothly, fully updated, and not flashing any warnings that you’ve been “meaning to look at later.” If you opened any temporary ports or services for a project that’s now wrapped, shut them down so you are not leaving extra pathways into your environment over the holidays. 🌐🚫
- Next, confirm your backups and recovery plan. Verify that last night’s backup actually succeeded and isn’t just “scheduled” in theory. Take a moment to confirm exactly who knows how to start a restore if something goes wrong while the owner or main decision-maker is away, so you are not scrambling to figure it out mid-incident. 💾🧯
- Finally, lock in your emergency plan and support. Make sure managers and key team members have your IT support number saved in their phones and know when to use it, and decide who is “on point” if there’s a security alert or outage during the break so issues don’t fall through the cracks. 📱⚠️
If you want a pro to walk through that 3-step lock‑down with you before you head out, reach out to Bernie Orglmeister at support@skyviewtek.com 📧 or call 610-590-5006 📞. A quick check with SkyViewTek now means you can step into the holidays thinking about friends and family, not firewalls and failures. 🎄✨