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Four ways to keep your
As businesses across the Middle East and Africa send their employees home to work, the need to guard against cyberattacks is greater than ever. These simple measures can help keep your workforce secure. By Cyril Voisin, chief security advisor at Microsoft
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e’ve all been impressed before by the skillful tricks of magicians who’ve mastered the art of misdirection – having your attention focused on one thing they easily manage to distract it from another. Masses of employees across the Middle East and Africa suddenly working from home and the world’s attention largely distracted, provides an opportunity for
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opportunistic cyber criminals looking to perform a few tricks of their own. Most employees, many of whom are working remotely for the first time, are experimenting with more efficient ways to stay in touch with their colleagues, either through different chat applications or via platforms that enable online calls. Getting to grips with new tech and adapting to a different way of work, along with the added distractions and stresses of
almost permanent lockdown, could mean employees pay less attention to the threat of cyberattack than they normally would. With the security perimeter increasingly porous, and companies’ ability to enforce security policies lessened, it’s more important than ever that business leaders and security officers plan to deal with cyber threats, and quickly. The reality is that many medium and large companies will already have provisions in
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