Working from home securely: the reality, the risks, and the remedy
If the first lockdown was all about keeping businesses running by any means available, security quickly emerged as a major risk for companies to manage
Mobile use rises
Scammers profit from the pandemic
Scam emails like this rely on social engineering techniques to fool recipients into thinking the messages are genuine. They then use this access to steal money from victims directly or trick them into revealing account details. With more people ordering online during lockdown, many criminals started sending messages that appeared to come from courier services, with a link that stole victims’ credit card details. Other security threats like ransomware also increased last year, a report from Microsoft found.
During the early stages of Covid-19’s arrival, many people were dealing with the stress of trying to work from home during a pandemic, reading messages on a small screen, and managing other aspects of life under lockdown. This created a stressful cocktail that made them more susceptible to fraud or likely to become infected by malicious software
Attacks against senior management increase
“We could see that this was a vulnerability in our organisation’s mobile security. And when Covid-19 came down the line, we could see an increase in text scams particularly targeting senior management and even some of the finance team
It’s great to have a product like this on our handsets, that we’re protected, and we’ve protected our workforce
3Mobile Protect is the result of a partnership between Three and the Irish software company Corrata, whose technology prevents phishing, malware and WiFi attacks on smartphones. It also enables businesses to filter inappropriate apps and content from those devices
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