Having remote working arrangements not only contributes to your business’s continuity and agility, but it also empowers your workforce to be productive from anywhere — even from the comfort of their own homes. However, the unprecedented accessibility afforded by a remote work setup also makes your systems highly vulnerable to cyberattacks.
The world is entering a new normal. While the general populace might be quick to adopt new habits and behaviors, some people might be overwhelmed by the looming uncertainty of the future.
For workers dealing with anxiety, being productive can be challenging.
Workplaces in the new normal will highlight agility and resilience above all, and this means leveraging IT tools to support business continuity. Mobile devices will be front and center in keeping small and midsize businesses’s (SMBs) operations running.
Working from home enables businesses in Kansas, Missouri and the world over to be more agile and productive even during a crisis. But while this setup ensures business continuity, lowers operational costs, and promotes better work-life balance, it can also threaten the very core of your business culture.
There have been specific events in history that reshaped the business industry, and the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is proving to be one of them. We are already seeing changes in consumer behavior that necessitate enterprises to rethink their systems, operations, and supply chains.
Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, many organizations were already adopting remote work. The pandemic was just the catalyst that made it the new normal. But while setting up a remote workforce is necessary to continue day-to-day operations, accessing data from outside the office poses cybersecurity risks such as data breaches.
With the Centers for Disease Control recommending social distancing, many companies are maintaining business continuity by going largely or completely remote. While the majority of the workforce is adjusting to working from home, network engineers, tech support personnel, cybersecurity professionals, and other IT staff are making sure that remote networks are set up securely.
In a highly digital era, an online presence is crucial to the success of a business. For many companies, their website is the flagship for most of their digital and inbound marketing efforts. It’s where potential customers, clients, vendors, and partners can find them, learn about their company, and contact them.
In the first week of online-only classes at Kansas State University in March, the student government senate convened for its first virtual meeting via the video conferencing app, Zoom.
Senate leaders tweeted the link to the session “to be more accessible to students,” said Jansen Penny, student body president.
Network security is a broad term that doesn’t refer to a specific type of product; rather, it’s a set of tools you can use to fortify your network from external and internal threats. In its simplest form, it refers to a set of rules and configurations put in place to safeguard the accessibility, integrity, and confidentiality of your data infrastructure.
