The Remote Workforce

COVID-19 is impacting everyone around the world and every aspect of our daily lives: our social interactions, our family life, our communities, and how all of us work! After being forced into working remotely due to lockdowns imposed by local authorities in many countries in order to prevent the spread of corona virus, most organizations are continuing to struggle with their remote employees productivity and completion of critical tasks for business continuity. Despite the industry your organization operates in, if there are jobs such as finance, designing, software development, investment brokering, etc. which involves employees to interact with a PC to get the work-done requires continuous monitoring to ensure the completion of work and efficiency is maintained as client demands / timelines will continue to drive pressure on your delivery and competition will always be on the lookout for opportunities to replace you. If COVID-19 has taught us one...

If covid19 has thought us something, that is precaution is better than cure! Since the coronavirus outbreak most of the organizations in the world has opened work from home options for their employees as measures of business continuity . Some of these decisions were taken due to the extended lockdowns imposed by certain countries and some as a part of business strategy. This has created more surface for the cyber criminals to execute their attacks as previously employees in an organization accessed the networks through more secure and narrowed methods and now the access to networks are mostly from home networks which may not be secured. Cyber attacks happen in many forms and some of us may not even know if these had already taken place unless it involves financial or other fraudulent activities which has actual impact to us as individuals. These crimes take place now in the form of, Malware , Spyware , Ransomware , Trojans , Viruses , Worms , Rootkit...