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The BIG Return As companies begin bringing employees back to the office, it is important to prepare not only the desks but assess the additional security risks. Employees have been working from home for over two years. Now that they are returning to the office, they could bring back some unwanted guests.
Home networks tend to be less secure than the offices, especially with children doing online learning at home on the same network. Employees have also been working at cafes, public Wi-Fi hotspots and other less secure locations.
Blue Summit recommends Trend Micro as they provide online training before and after the tests to help employees identify and delete spam email.
Just as kids bring viruses home from school, employees can bring viruses back to the corporate network. In preparation to everyone returning to the office, we recommend small and medium business take some additional precautions.
Having a firewall just isn’t enough anymore. Hackers are getting smarter and once they get in there is nothing stopping them from wreaking havoc on your computers and network. At a minimum, you need a good business firewall that protects both inbound and outbound traffic. Only allow known traffic out of your office, to ensure hackers can’t create connections from inside your office. Blue Summit recommends Netgate firewalls for small and medium sized businesses. They are less expensive and allow for granular management of traffic.
Five Ways to Protect Your Office 1. Cyber Test Employees
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The best protection against phishing attacks, email and text scams and other social threats is to provide employees the opportunity to practice. Running phishing tests for employees allows them to practice catching scam email, texts or calls before they receive a real one. There are many services that will send employees phishing tests and provide feedback to each person on what they can do to catch the scammer before they get in trouble.
2. Secure Networks
Managing access to websites is also a critical part of your secure network. Employees may not always be able to tell if a URL or website is legitimate. Putting systems in place to automatically check a URL before it is clicked helps protect employees from accidentally going to the wrong place and inviting unwanted friends in. Blue Summit recommends using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. It integrates with all the Microsoft products and checks all links before they are clicked.
