Cybersecurity Strategy for the Coronavirus

Training in cybersecurity is incredibly important to ensure the safety of company data. However, with the recent coronavirus pandemic, employers have been forced to switch to a remote working policy, making it harder to manage potential cyber security threats. While keeping sensitive information safe is still likely a priority for you, it is now increasingly more difficult to catch threats as they come.

ITConnexion has put together a list of security tactics your employees and business can implement during this time to limit the consequences of cyber threats and to further strengthen your IT security. 

Strengthen Your Work from Home IT Security

Security is extremely important when working from home but unfortunately, it’s one of the hardest things to maintain when employees are scattered across various locations.

To ensure your network, sensitive data and private information remain safe and secure, it’s important to educate everyone in the business on the importance of IT security, especially while working remote.

It’s Time to Migrate to the Cloud

If you aren’t already utilising cloud capabilities, now is the time to make the switch. Cloud migration involves moving data, applications and processes from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud. Even if you are a business that relies on on-premise infrastructure, partial migration to the cloud is still possible and will be especially useful during the coronavirus pandemic.

How to work successfully during the coronavirus

Being successful while working from home requires a different kind of discipline. When working from the office, you typically have all the supplies needed to output outstanding work. However remote work can bring a slew of complications including lack of space, poor internet connection and unavoidable distractions.

Build a Better IT Infrastructure for Remote Work

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses across Australia to switch to a business model that embraces a work from home routine indefinitely. While some businesses are beginning to adapt to this new and unusual change, others are struggling to keep up with the ever changing landscape.

Due to the recent pandemic COVID-19, many businesses from different industries around the world have been affected with many of their staff members now working from home. However, we have witnessed an increasing number of unethical practices targeting employees working from home in the form of: