Many more companies have suffered cyberattacks since moving to remote work

Since the start of the pandemic, cybersecurity experts have warned about threats linked with the transition to remote working. Now, access management firm OneLogin has released a new report that appears to validate those concerns. Polling 2,000 remote workers (1,000 in the US and UK each), the company found that 34 percent have suffered a data breach since shifting to …

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Employees still guilty of reusing passwords at work

Just a quarter of employees save their passwords, either in a notebook, their smartphone or a password management app, according to data from KnowBe4. This means that most people are guilty of using the same password across multiple services, the company claims, making them easy prey for hackers. All online accounts, especially banking services, require a strong password to protect …

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Nearly half of employees think full-time remote working doesn’t work

Full-time remote working has had its moment in the sun, but it seems as if the euphoria was short-lived. Collaboration solutions provider Barco has published a new report, based on a poll of 1,750 employees around the world, which states that just 15 percent would want to continue working from home full-time after Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. Almost half of …

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How to beat fear and start transforming work

With cash flow and normal business kicked into a cocked hat, many organizations have clenched up and hunkered down, hoping for normality to return. However, a crisis has always proven to be the best time for driving a mandate for change – and one that would never happen in normal times. What we also learned from the 2008-11 global financial …

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IT teams need to work closer together than ever before

Businesses whose IT teams communicate better, especially during turbulent periods, perform far better than those that struggle to collaborate internally. This is according to a new report from SolarWinds, which claims IT teams need to work closer than ever before if they are to help their organizations move through the pandemic. According to the report, businesses are faced with “new …

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Security teams are struggling to curb employees’ risky work behaviors online

Warnings from security experts about the myriad of threats lurking online have fallen on deaf ears, as the majority of employees are still actively engaged in unsafe and unproductive web activity when they should be working. This is according to a new report from Censornet, based on a poll of 300 cybersecurity pros, which states that two thirds (67 percent) …

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