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Managing assets: Information technology
You need to ensure that your information technology (IT) is appropriately set up and protected.
Areas to consider:
Make sure that your business has administrative procedures and records and an orderly and accessible system for storing information. This can be manual or electronic depending on your requirements. Look for free or affordable cloud-based systems that will automatically back up your data.
Further guidance:
Make sure that any electronic data is backed up regularly to mitigate against the risk of loss.
Further guidance:
National Cyber Security Centre Offline Backups
Ensure you have the appropriate licenses for all your IT software.
Further guidance:
Ensure your IT is secure with appropriate anti-virus and fire walls in place to guard against cyber-attacks, viruses and other security risks.
Further guidance:
National Cyber Security Centre information for small medium sized organisations
In this section:
Detailed guidance on systems and procedures for business compliance
Ensuring compliance: Governance systems and records
Ensuring compliance: Financial systems and controls - set-up requirements
Ensuring compliance: Financial systems and controls - ongoing requirements
Ensuring compliance: HR systems and procedures
Ensuring compliance: HR systems - Spotlight on ‘Managing people’
- Managing people: Employing and managing staff
- Managing people: Managing volunteers
- Managing people: Using contractors and freelancers
Ensuring compliance: Managing assets and resources - Spotlight on ‘Assets’