Canadian Security Magazine: Cybersecurity Insights to Prevent Hacks, Concerns with Remote Work

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Canadian Security magazine offers insights into maintaining a security environment to prevent hacks and other concerns for remote workers in this article: “Cybersecurity for the home-based worker.”

“IT managers should also be extra vigilant about their networks. It’s important that only the appropriate people are able access certain parts of the network. Establishing identity through secure authentication is key in the implementation of an effective security policy. For example, many damaging security breaches have been due to compromised user accounts and passwords exacerbated by users being provided with inappropriate levels of access. In addition to authenticating remote access, IT should also ensure that internal segmentation is in place to further protect valuable company IT assets. Segmentation is not new, but can be effective in providing extra security measures around key network components, such as servers that contain valuable intellectual property,” said Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for FortiGuard Labs at Fortinet, in the article.

Additional recommendations from the article included:

Reinforce cybersecurity policies with employees, such as use of VPNs and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to maintain safety.
Communicate with employees about phishing best practices and how to identify new coronavirus-related scams and hacks.
The article added that devices should be loaded with property security measures and software in advance, to “maintain the rigor around enforcing policies and providing the support that they [workers] have when working in the office, now working from home.”

Learn more about current cybersecurity hacks and scams from this Hikvision article: “Hikvision Senior Director of Cybersecurity on Recent Coronavirus-Related Malware and Phishing Attacks, Plus Password Manager Tip.”

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