Pandemic-related vulnerabilities, including home-based workforces and mobile WFH devices, have left big gaps in security. And evolving cyber attacks — like blended extortion-ransomware — mean that organizations can’t afford to let their guard down.
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There are growing indicators that tech employees face a higher risk of work-from-home burnout. So how do we apply what we’ve learned over the past six months to make WFH work better, for both staff and bosses? Here are some recommendations for the months ahead.
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Months into the pandemic, organizations are taking stock of what worked (and what didn’t) as they pivoted in a matter of days or weeks to a work-from-home model—and overhauling their IT priorities because of it. Read our latest coverage from the Enterprise Connect conference.
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While coronavirus may have flattened IT budgets, spending is being redirected to work-from-home technologies such as cloud-based platforms. But how are businesses coping with the new demands being placed on enterprise IT by WFH?
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The initial rush to enable work-from-home during a global pandemic had businesses flocking to cloud-based UCaaS—which has limitations when deployed over traditional WANs. A better long-term solution could be SD-WAN, which optimizes available residential bandwidth.
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COVID-related cyber attacks are on the rise. So as companies slowly move at least part of their workforce back to the office, it’s important to review lessons learned since the start of work-from-home orders to bolster IT security during this awkward transition phase.
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COVID-19 has put an end to live trainings for the foreseeable future, so Teresa Nelson, Allstream’s Sales Training Manager, set up a web-based training program to virtually onboard new sales employees. Here’s how she made the sudden switch to virtual onboarding.
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Since mid-March, we’ve seen an increase in the volume and scope of cybersecurity attacks as employees working from home and transitioning back to the office present a tempting target for malicious actors. This could change the way your business evaluates risk for years to come.
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As we shelter in place during COVID-19, we’re learning a few things about working from home. expertIP talked to members of the Allstream team about what they’ve learned so far and what they’ll bring back to the office when we get to the other side of this global pandemic.
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Since China is two or three months ahead of the rest of the world in dealing with COVID-19, a look at how the virus is affecting Chinese IT spending could be prescient for the rest of the global enterprise community.
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Working from home puts our workplace data and networks at greater risk of being infected by virtual threats like malware, spyware and ransomware. We talk to a security pro for tips on how enterprises can protect their networks while enabling WFH during the pandemic.
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