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Resilience Through a Pandemic: A Remote Work Setup

submitted on 9 May 2020
The changing times and general uncertainties require planning and resilience. Plan for the things you can control, and be resilient during hurdles no one could've anticipated. The impact of COVID-19 on the world has been unprecedented. While the battle is ongoing, a healthy environment that caters to the citizens and the economy is ideal. Sacrificing either will have an immense negative impact on both, from a multitude of angles. An emerging immediate and doable solution is for businesses to enable remote work for the type of services that can accommodate it. Here's how remote work can work for your business:

Strengthen your defence against phishing
Phishing is existent in pre and post-COVID 19 times. What makes this threat even bigger today is that there are significantly more attempts to phish for information using sophisticated and legitimate-seeming donation drives. With the heightened emotional vulnerability due to the pandemic, more malware can end up being installed in unsuspecting systems.

The term phishing arises from the sophisticated methods used to 'fish' for personal, financial, and confidential information that will often be used for identity theft. Social engineers behind these attempts to bait you into clicking on legitimate-looking websites which ask for your information. To combat this, conducting training sessions that help understand, spot, deter, and deal with phishing emails is crucial. One person's credentials are sometimes enough to cripple the business. The operational and reputational damage that may arise is extremely preventable.

Use company devices only
Company devices that are regulated and checked by IT professionals are significantly safer than personally-used devices. Most company-owned devices have restrictions on activities that will put the business at risk. Disabling USB ports and unauthorised apps, as well as risky websites, are effective ways to keep cyberattacks at bay. If providing company devices at this time of the pandemic is a challenge, hiring an MMR IT company to monitor and install safeguards in personal devices is a good countermeasure. At the end of the day, what's important is to prevent malicious control of the device and the systems.

Allow secure networks only
Secure home WI-FI will have to be a prerequisite to work from home setups. Free WI-FI can easily be manipulated into being cyber mines. Being connected to malicious WI-FI signals will guarantee sensitive information falling into the worst hands. Your business information and the customer data it holds will be put at risk.

Re-evaluate processes
Re-evaluating the type of work that can be brought home in this setup will help manage risks. Some people will like working from home while a few won't. Other circumstances dictate that working in the office and observing social distancing while wearing a mask is a more viable option. Such is the case for employees who lives near the office and find the work environment more conducive to productivity.

Work-from-home setups can work as long as you assess the risks and have processes in place to manage them. Occurrences outside of your control are bound to happen. Thriving is an ever-existing option.

 







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