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Securing Your Remote Workforce: How to Reduce Cyber Threats

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The debates have (mostly) stopped about whether remote work is here to stay. For many people, it’s just the way we work today. However, even three years later, cybersecurity around remote work is still a top concern. Both companies and employees have room for improvement in terms of protecting devices, data and apps from cybersecurity […]

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Remote Employees: Update Your Routers (and More WFH IT Tips)

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As a business owner or manager, you must ensure your employees have the right tools and resources to do their jobs well — especially with more people working from home. And IT infrastructure is one of the most important considerations regarding remote work. However, the truth is that most employees don’t think about their IT […]

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Cybersecurity Needs to Work Even When Employees Aren’t on Board

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Goldman Sachs leadership didn’t get the response they expected from their return to the office (RTO) order. In fact, Fortune reported that only about half of the company’s employees showed up. With today’s tight labor market and many employers allowing remote work, employees have firm ground to stand on. How do you secure a workforce […]

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Cybersecurity for a More Sustainable Future

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As we celebrate Earth Day 2022, companies around the world, including IBM, are continuing broad investment in efforts to combat climate change and strive to bring new ideas to the world in support of sustainability and to make the world a better place for future generations. While the connection between cybersecurity and the environment is […]

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Remote Work Makes it More Important Than Ever to Trust Zero Trust

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The remote work era makes the zero trust model critical for most businesses. The time has come to use it. But first, let’s understand what it really is and why the hybrid and remote work trend makes it all but mandatory.  What Is Zero Trust? Zero trust is not a product or a service, but […]

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IAM OT Security Risks Call for Strategic Defenses

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Today’s technology requires today’s identity and access management (IAM). In the past, operational technology (OT) systems were physically and logically separated from a company’s enterprise corporate business environment and the external world. That served as a control to protect them from common cyberattacks. Starting in the 1970s, serial-based analog processes controlled, managed and monitored these […]

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Remote Work Security: Handling Setbacks in the Time of COVID-19

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Most security experts, IT workers and leaders understand that the pandemic brought a decline in business and digital safety. A big part of that is the rush to get set up at home and establish remote work security. But why, exactly? It turns out that surprising factors degraded the security of the remote workforce. Let’s start […]

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Facing Tech Burnout? Here’s How Employers Can Help

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Cybersecurity demands skill and experience. But it also calls for an engaged, motivated and energetic team. And that’s why tech burnout among staff is not only a mental health problem for the employees, it’s also a cybersecurity vulnerability for their employer.  What Is Burnout, Anyway?  The word ‘burnout’ was first used by psychologist Herbert Freudenberger […]

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Cybersecurity Awareness: How Much Data Can An Attacker Get From an Employee ID?

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Cyber awareness may seem fairly obvious, but it’s not always. For example, you would never post a photo of your driver’s license on Facebook, right? How about your company ID card? Then there’s that selfie you took at the office. Were you wearing your work badge? Not a good idea. Part of cybersecurity awareness is […]

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