Natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes might come to mind when you think of disaster preparedness. If your business is not in a hot spot for these types of events, you may consider yourself safe from most disasters. Yet, it is still prudent to prepare for disaster, because other events such as fires, floods and virtual crises due to cybercrime and network failures, are likely to take place anywhere.

Sandboxes are isolated computing environments set aside from other programs in which a program or file can be executed without affecting the application it runs or other programs;  if an error or security issues occur, those issues will not spread to other areas on the computer or pose any threat to other programs.  In computers, the term sandboxing has long been used to run malicious code or to test new programing code so software developers can analyze it.

Securing your business network isn’t just one job. It’s a series of ongoing tasks that, performed together, provide what you need to keep your small businesses secure — which is a multi-layered network security program executed on several fronts, including inside and outside your business.