How to stay secure when working from home

Working from home has been on the rise for the past five years. Along with that rise, the risk of cyberattacks via these employees has grown too.

Working from home has been on the rise for the past five years. Along with that rise, the risk of cyberattacks via these employees has grown too. So in this article we'll look at what needs to be sorted before you let people start working from home.

Securing the home network

The main thing is changing the factory-default credentials — username and password — to something unique and ideally at least 15 characters long. It's also essential to use the latest security protocols (ideally WPA3). If you can configure a separate network exclusively for work, definitely consider it. And if you have employees willing to take these steps, try to help them out.

Passwords and MFA

Yes, your passwords have to be unique everywhere, and you should use a password manager (an article going into detail HERE). The same goes for MFA — if it can be enabled, enable it!

Overall caution

Under "overall caution" I include three things:

·         Protecting your device — meaning using antivirus and scanning tools like VT4Browsers.

·         Phishing and social engineering — it's important to be able to tell a phishing email from a real one, just as it's important to tell a friendly colleague from someone who'll breach your network from the inside. Phishing

·         General caution — it's sad but important to behave online as if everyone were trying to rob you of everything you have. So you simply have to watch out! Online behaviour