Cyber Security has jumped to a top ten issue for every business and industry. All large enterprises are now dramatically increasing their investments in cyber security due to the high-profile attacks this past year. The hackers know this and are now adding small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to their attacks as fast as possible. 

Many executives are struggling on how to evaluate their cyber security technology and best practices.  The following is a Cyber Security Checklist with the top 10 projects you should implement immediately to increase your business protection and reduce your company risk.

Cyber Security has jumped to one of the top of executive priorities - from large enterprises to small businesses.  Since the sales team handles sensitive customer and company information on a daily basis, they should be a high priority focus to help reduce and prevent cyber crime.

Here are 5 Top Sales Team Best Practices that are easy to implement this next quarter:

Earlier this month, I spoke at an annual conference of 100 CEOs and shared some of the following top technology trends that can help  increase revenue or reduce expenses over the next five years.  

Why Read this Article if You're a Business Executive?

Over the last 50 years, major technology change lasted about 10 years.  Most companies took their time to  adopt a new technology and continued to be successful. Technology was like accounting.  You needed to have it work well, but you didn't typically base your business plans or strategy on new accounting rules.

It is now a very different world. The number of new technologies and the time to implementation has significantly sped up. Now you may have only a few years before your major competitors are offering more and better services at a lower cost than you.  Start-up companies that are well funded by venture capital are moving quickly to disrupt older established industry businesses. Company leaders that dominated an industry for 20+ years can be replaced in only a few years.

New Technology is being used to change established business models every day around the world. Senior executives need to pay attention and educate themselves on the new technology trends and NOT delegate this to other managers in the company.