ASSESSMENTS

Ensuring Business Continuity in a World of COVID-19

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Scott Stewart
VP of Tactical Analysis, Stratfor

Mar 13, 2020 | 20:51 GMT

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Highlights

  • Employees can lessen the risk of having their data stolen by using VPNs and cellular data.
  • We recommend that employees be educated about the wide array of phishing schemes seeking to capitalize on COVID. 
  • Employees should also be advised about business email compromise, sometimes referred to as "CEO scams" or "president scams," a growing risk as more business is conducted remotely and over email.

Many companies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by reducing or banning corporate travel and by asking some or all of their employees to work from home. While having employees work from home will help reduce the transmission of the virus in the workplace, it also brings with it some additional risks, and we'd like to examine a few of them. As the disruptions from responses to COVID-19 mount, it is important to consider the second- and third-order impacts of the extreme efforts being put in place to curb the spread....

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