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Remote Work Security: Shield Team Members from Cyber Threats

October 30, 2023October 28, 2023 by Daniel Ihonvbere

Introduction

The concept of working from home, or remote work, has become more prevalent than ever before. While it offers convenience and flexibility, it also presents unique challenges, with one of the most pressing being the constant threat of cyberattacks. Cyber criminals are actively evolving their tactics to exploit vulnerabilities in remote work setups.

To safeguard your remote employees, it is crucial to ensure that their digital workspace is protected.

In this article, we will explore the significance of securing remote employees from cyber threat actors and provide actionable mitigation steps in an easily understandable format.

Why Protecting Remote Work Employees is Crucial

The shift to remote work has led to an increase in the attempts by cyber criminals to look for, and exploit vulnerabilities, thus making it imperative to safeguard your remote workforce.

Here are a few reasons why:

Work From Home: How To Maximize Productivity During A Pandemic

March 23, 2020 by techprognosis

As a business owner today, you are now facing unprecedented challenges to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic. You are asked to self-isolate and practice social distancing to “flatten the curve.” You are asked to allow your employees to work from home to reduce possible exposure and slow the spread of COVID-19.

These are all reasonable requests. However, as a business owner you also need to maximize productivity, bring in revenue and try to grow your business in these demanding times. How can you accomplish these goals when your office is now a ghost town and productivity has fallen off a cliff?

The answer lies in setting up your office to function remotely by allowing employees and volunteers to work from home, or remotely. If you’ve never implemented a work-from-home policy before, it may seem like a whole different world. Managing an entirely remote workforce goes far beyond giving your employees a laptop and reminding them to check in every once in a while. After all, there are many factors most business owners haven’t ever had to consider, such as:

What Can Astaro Linux Do For You?

May 5, 2009 by Daniel Ihonvbere

I had a client who was just getting killed by spammers. Every morning their inbox was loaded with junk mail and they had as much as five thousand (5,000) emails in their spam filter box when they came in. I decided to help them out with the free version of Astaro Security Gateway. We threw the software version (v7) on an old AMD box they had lying around – 2GHz processor, 20GB IDE drive, 512 RAM, two NICS. What a difference spam filtering at the perimeter of the network makes! The first week was like “wow”. Astaro actually generates a daily report and for email filtering we had 36,930 processed. Get this, out of that number, 36,832 was categorized as “Spam emails blocked”. And the live log was right there for us to see. Emails the system was not sure about were placed in quarantine and you have the option of having an admin view, release or delete those emails, or have a report sent to the affected user. The report even had a “Top 10 Spam Sender” entry with the IP addresses and countries of origin (little flags) of the bad guys. There was also a “Top 5 Spam Countries” entry on the report.

Small Business Servers you never heard of!

February 24, 2009 by Daniel Ihonvbere

Now be honest, what do you know about ClarkConnect, Astaro, Untangle. Chances are, you do not have any idea what they are. These are the Open Source equivalents of Microsoft’s Small Business Server. ClarkConnect is a piece of software built on the solid foundation of Red Hat’s code. The application manages to pack a lot … Read more