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TechRepublic's Karen Roby talked with writer Erik Eckel about best practices for backing up data while working from home. One factor that may be overlooked, is how are we backing up all of the data that's getting processed and created, and edited and revised, in people's homes? Chances are, people are working with a laptop from their company at home, maybe fighting over position for the best home office location, whether that's a desk in a spare room or the kitchen table.
TechRepublic writer Erik Eckel gives tips on how to make sure your data is safe if you're working from home.
Mobile rootkits, virtual home invasions of well-known public figures and Bluetooth Low Energy attacks are among the other attack types to prepare for in the next year. These new methods, in tandem with a surge in counter IR, destructive attacks, lateral movement and island hopping, make for a perilous threat landscape.
Top-tier enterprises were 2.6 times as likely to have grown revenue, 2.5 times as likely to have reached profit goals and 2.1 times as likely to have high employee satisfaction numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Catchpoint survey of 200 enterprise CIOs and 200 enterprise work-from-home managers. Top tier are organizations that performed the best in terms of business and IT metrics and bottom tier performed the worst.
Social distancing and remote working during COVID-19 have increased cybersecurity risks for companies worldwide, increasing the need for project managers to work on more security-related efforts. The good news is project managers often excel under pressure and can be highly valuable assets to information security and internal audit teams.
Despite the pandemic, companies are obligated to comply with many laws governing data security and privacy, including the two most familiar to consumers - the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Like GDPR before it, CCPA makes data security and regulatory compliance more of a challenge and requires businesses to create a number of new processes to fully understand what data they have stored in their networks, who has access to it, and how to protect it.
Security threats in the second quarter of 2020 continue to target remote workers, but attackers aren't relying on COVID-19-themed phishing: They're going straight for vulnerable home networks where workers are conducting business. Managed security provider Nuspire's report on security threats in Q2 2020 said that phishing attempts have ditched the coronavirus in favor of exploiting the upcoming election and Black Lives Matter movement, but that there's been a 12% decline in malware attacks during Q2. SEE: Identity theft protection policy.
Half a year into the shutdown, companies are still playing catch up to optimize their remote work experience, according to Infoblox. Organizations are still building out their IT infrastructure and security controls to optimize remote work.
The Michigan institution announced its plan on July 28, which calls for testing coordinated by Testing Centers of America and the use of a health monitoring app called Aura Sequential Testing. "All students will utilize Aura, an app developed by Nucleus Healthcare, that organizes the College's COVID-19 testing and public health approach," Albion said in a statement.
RiskIQ released a research report revealing a large-scale digital scam advertisement campaign spread through fraudulent news sites and affiliate ad networks that cater to highly partisan audiences. Scammers are taking advantage of COVID-19 to spread fake news.