Digital Journal: Since the COVID-19 Pandemic began and teams have become more dispersed, cybersecurity and privacy has become a priority for many businesses. But what steps should they be taking to protect ourselves?
Shitesh Sachan: At the outset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, many organisations decided to enforce social distancing by encouraging their employees to work from home. This decision created new security challenges for many organizations, who now had larger remote workforces. As people have started to work remotely, businesses are, quite rightly, concerned about their data privacy. Social engineering attacks and ransomware attacks have become 4 times more common during lockdown. Most of those attacks are a result of a lack of cybersecurity awareness and in-competent or incomplete security policies. There are five key steps all businesses should take to protect themselves. These…
