By the Cyber Readiness Institute As we roll into the last few months of the year, it has become clear that many organizations are only sending a small percentage of their workforce back into the office. What we are witnessing is the emergence of a
By Philip Reitinger, President and CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance The pandemic hasn’t only affected businesses. Millions of students are now engaged in remote learning, and that number will soar when schools “reopen” in the coming months. Our own local school system, for example,
By Joshua Lawton-Belous, Global Business Officer, Global Cyber Alliance If the COVID-19 pandemic has identified anything in how we all conduct our daily lives, it is the fact that many personal computers are less protected from malicious cyber actors than work computers. This increase in
As we begin to enter a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, some employees are returning to their offices while others are continuing to work remotely. This hybrid work environment can present new challenges for organizations, such as data protection. For small businesses, protecting data
By Tony Maher, Director Operations and Membership Services, the Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF) “Like it or not, we live in interesting times,” Robert F. Kennedy said in his Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Cape Town, South Africa on 6 June 1966.
By Pelle Waldron, Global Cyber Alliance As businesses have been forced to work from home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, opportunities for cybercrime have increased. But a recent survey by the Cyber Readiness Institute shows that businesses with fewer than 10 employees have continued to underestimate
By Jeannette Jarvis, Cyber Threat Alliance Spidey sense: a vague but strong sense of something being wrong, dangerous, suspicious, or a security situation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the global workforce has been working from home. This is creating an enticing environment for hackers and
By Gill Thomas, Community Manager, Global Cyber Alliance As the world has taken on the “new normal” of working from home, it is worth taking a closer look at how secure we really are. We can examine how we are faring during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Joshua Lawton-Belous, Global Business Officer, Global Cyber Alliance The past weeks of working from home have allowed many of us to focus on what we can do to protect our businesses, employees, and colleagues from malicious cyber actors. However, unlike the relative newness of
By Jonathan Langridge, MA, MBACP, Psychotherapist, SM1 Therapy (UK) Another ‘Mental Health Week’ has passed but for those living with any mental health issues their concerns are not constrained to one week per year, rather they deal with their demons week in, week out. Obviously
