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Coronavirus: Hackers are exploiting the COVID-19 outbreak to steal your information
2020-02-28 23:24

It's 3% of our global GDP. So, in essence, the coronavirus just does a couple of things for how we react as human beings to a crisis.

So you just need to think about the awareness of your employees of these types of things and that in a situation like this, they are very likely to click information about what's really going on with the company, with the external world around you and get information about the coronavirus, that malicious actors use to basically penetrate your network or defraud you of your money.

SEE: How coronavirus may accelerate the future of work.

If we look at it in the shape of the coronavirus, it is not something that the coronavirus created.

Now, all of a sudden, you just have a full population outside of your firewall, and you need to understand how you'd deal with that and keep the productivity of the business even if you have to go to drastic measures and not have people in the office given a situation like the coronavirus.


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