# Who watches our network when the IT administrator is on holiday?

Nobody, unless you arrange it before the holiday starts. Decide who receives alerts while the administrator is away: a colleague, the managing director or your IT provider. Give that person a one-page note: how to read an alert, which ones to escalate, how to disconnect a computer, and whom to call. Make sure they can reach the accounts they need, with multi-factor authentication, and that the administrator's own access is not shared. Check before leaving that backups are working and updates are current. Detection itself does not take holidays: NetSenX keeps watching and sends alerts by e-mail on every plan, so adding the deputy as a recipient is often the only change needed.

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- https://netsenx.com/en/ndr-for-small-business
- https://netsenx.com/en/pricing

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