Protect your information when working from home
Useful tips to consider
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There has been a massive increase in the stats on business email compromise, phishing campaigns and malware etc due to Covid-19.
While you may have fire walls, robust passwords, anti-virus software, you still need to be vigilant particularly when working from home. Here are some helpful tips for you and your teams:
- Be vigilant of covid-19 phishing attacks. Don’t click on links from unknown senders. If it looks odd or your wondering why someone who you haven’t been dealing with sent you a document to download or it looks like its from someone within the organisation have a look at the actual address the email is coming from and not just the name.
- Be aware of smishing campaigns also. Smishing is SMS phishing. You might get a text with the word Urgent or some of the text in Caps. Don’t click on the link its more than likely smishing
- Name Spoofing: This is where the sender has studied your company structure and created a wholly false email address but used a legitimate name. Again always check email address behind the name.
- Be mindful of your surroundings when on video calls. Is there personal data in view, privileged info etc.
- Just like the office lock your laptop when away from your home office desk. Use work laptop for work only
- Check your wifi settings. Can anyone log in? Have you got a complex password?
- Use secure communication channels when sharing work info for example email, Microsoft teams, Server etc. don’t use whaps app etc
- Make sure all data is kept confidential. If you would normally shred in the office then it needs to be disposed of in a similar way at home.
- In terms of GDPR the same rules apply as they would in the office. No sharing of person information with third parties, don’t add people to mailing lists without consent etc
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