Protect your franchisees from hackers.(Techno franchising: challenges & solutions)

What would you think if one of your franchisees started e-mailing everyone in their contact-manager solicitations for Viagra? Would it affect your brand name if one of your franchisees' computers was identified as part of a hacker attack on another company? What would it cost you of one of your franchisees suddenly lost all their data and was completely down during business hours ... for days?

As a franchisor, you need to be proactive in protecting your franchisees because the reputation of your franchise literally depends on it. If you don't think that these potentially devastating events could ever happen to you or your franchisees, think again. Every day thousands of computers get hacked and are then subsequently used as a staging point for more hacker attacks on others.

There are four critical steps that every …