It’s an annual event for many companies, and consumers for that matter, – renewing their security software. Most consumer security software requires that you renew your license every year. To do that, you need to remember – or remember where you put it – the license key. I don’t know about you, but I never remembered where I stored the license key. Rather than trying to remember, I would just buy it again.
Many small businesses have the same problem. Every year, the IT administrator (which is usually the most technical person in the company) has everyone bring in their laptop to get their security license renewed. While the license is cheap, companies spend an enormous amount of time performing this task. Even if you can remotely access your staff’s computers, it’s still a painful. For companies that chose not to bother, they significantly increase the likelihood of a virus infecting one or more company computers. Talk about a nightmare.
There are security solutions that renew automatically eliminating the need to annually update everyone’s computer. We offer McAfee’s business security solution and it renews automatically each month. If McAfee’s not your preferred solution, look for another solution that eliminates the renewal process. Unfortunately, security software is a necessary evil, but there are ways to minimize the pain.