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The Future of Cybersecurity in a World of Remote Working

Jim Zuffoletti talks with Neil C. Hughers on the Tech Talks Daily podcast about the future of cybersecurity in a remote world.

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Beyond Zoom: How Safe Are Slack and Other Collaboration Apps?

Coordinated campaigns against corporate instances of collaboration platforms can be difficult to pinpoint, making things challenging for security teams.

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Collaboration Tools: Essential but Risky in Remote Work

“If a bad actor is able to compromise a user account, they have powerful access to get behind company defenses,” said Otavio Freire, CTO & co-founder of SafeGuard Cyber. “In the current WFH (work from home) paradigm, this risk is made more real because computers and devices are now at home and do not have all the firewall and network protection found inside the corporate networks. Once inside a collaboration platform, a bad actor can pose as a trusted employee to share malicious docs or files to move laterally into other devices. Depending on how the platform is configured, they may also be able to move into file-sharing apps such as G-suite or Sharepoint to gain access to sensitive data.”

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Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

“Security teams need to work closely with stakeholders to ensure all cloud environments are secure, and avoid the shadow IT trap,” Otavio Freire, CTO and co-founder, SafeGuard Cyber, told Threatpost. “It’s a matter of empowering your employees to use these apps securely so they can do their best business, not saying ‘no’ to ignore the problem. Instead, teams should work together to understand what tools are needed to conduct business, and why they need them. By developing a close relationship, you avoid being asked for approval at the last minute, or worse, finding out the team adopted an app without asking.”

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COVID-19: Disaster Preparedness for the Digital-First Business

The pressures of a global event like COVID-19 mean that more workers than ever will be conducting critical business on platforms like Teams and Slack. As a result, bad actors will flock to these platforms, and start directing their malicious efforts here.

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Cybersecurity experts warn that hackers are targeting people now working from home amid the coronavirus outbreak: 'They're not always as diligent'

"For example, without the right security measures in place, a bad actor can easily impersonate a remote employee" and introduce malware into your company's network, Freire said. "Knowing that more critical enterprise work will be conducted via these channels, hackers will focus more time, energy and effort to exploit them – they go where the action is."

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