The Covid-19 pandemic and considerations for a mobile workforce

These are very difficult times we are living in currently with a great deal of uncertainty over what the future holds for businesses and whether they will manage to survive the effects of the coronavirus pandemic global lockdowns and infection rates. And cyber security is one aspect that needs to be dealt with to ensure that it doesn’t add to the problems, especially as so many workers are working from home during their country’s lockdown and cyber criminals are notorious for taking advantage of such situations.

Help your customers work from Home – with the generous assistance of F-Secure

As the world is working on preventing the spread of COVID-19, many companies are recommending that their employees work from home. F Secure wants to also do its part in the time of crisis by enabling secure remote work for companies and people impacted by the current situation and have launched the following campaigns in order to keep your customers protected also at the home office:

Have you been pwned?

One of the major knock-on effects of ransomware attacks is that of affected customers possibly becoming ‘pwned’. Getting pwned refers to an individual’s personal information being compromised in a data breach at an organisation where they are a customer (either currently or in the past).

F-Secure releases RADAR scan node for Linux

F-Secure RADAR is an ever-evolving solution for vulnerability scanning and insight for all environments. A scan node is an application, installed on a server, that is used by F-Secure RADAR to scan an internal network. Multiple scan nodes can be deployed within a single organisation’s network if, for example, the network is segmented into various VLANs to restrict traffic and communications between devices.

Be sure to consider some of the cyber threats out there and consider these tips for protecting yourself and your devices. Until our next mailer, you can check out all the great resources we have available on our website.

The Cybervision Team