5 Essential Steps to Secure Your Company's Office 365 Accounts

The business world has changed more rapidly in the past two years than it has in a decade. The shift to remote work and online business has boosted not just the demand for IT professionals, but the level of cybersecurity awareness we all need to take onboard.

Office 365 is a powerful tool for businesses the world over, but that also makes it a gold mine for hackers. Even having an entry-level account compromised can mean serious disruption for your businesses.

Are You the Weak Link in a Supply Chain Attack?

Are you the weak link that could lead to a massive cybersecurity breach that could lead to millions of dollars in fines for a company?

Doesn’t seem to be a real possibility, right?

But the truth is, each of us has the potential to be a gateway to major breaches for our employers, our customers, clients, and suppliers.

Or you may not be the direct link - it could be something you trusted to be safe, only it wasn’t.

Good Simply Isn’t Enough

The Hidden Costs of Poor Cybersecurity Measures for Small Businesses

Cybersecurity measures for small businesses is a major topic as we head into 2021.

It comes as no surprise, given the pandemic, the increasing number of attacks, and various high-profile companies making the news.

Zoom came to the forefront of cybersecurity issues when it became known that they didn’t provide end-to-end encryption of customer’s communication. The company reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission for misrepresenting its security features.

Should Employee Training include CyberSecurity?

Let me start by stating the obvious - it pays to offer continuous and comprehensive employee training. A Life with Health CEO Aimee Tariq explains why in her article ‘4 Big Benefits of Improved Employee Training’. She outlines how such an initiative provides a quicker pathway to productivity, enhances employee engagement, improves employee retention, and helps ensure long-term profitability.
And in this increasingly digitalised world, offering digital skills training has become a must, with tech writer Daniel Ling noting in the blog ‘Professional Development in Today’s Digital Landscape’ how training in anything related to tech and digital marketing “can fill skill gaps,” in turn “ensuring relevancy in fast-evolving areas of knowledge." This applies to all your employees regardless of where they are in the business spectrum — a nervous first jobber, a mid-level employee, or an influential decision-maker.

Relevancy in different areas, though, need not come at the expense of safety, especially in the digital realm where work is often conducted (saving in the cloud, using cloud-based services) and business is usually transacted (as in eCommerce and online registrations). In other words, you must make sure that your team has a working knowledge of cybersecurity, and one way to ensure that is to include cybersecurity training in your employee development programs.

Cybersecurity Checklist for Remote Working

If the Covid-19 pandemic has forced your organisation to adopt remote working for employees, it is very likely that you were required to roll out new IT applications and services to maintain your employee efficiency, business continuity and [production capacity]. But as companies are implementing the new system to cater to the needs of remote workforces, this transformation may not have been very smooth for some of them due to limited technology capability. It is quite understandable that the speed with which the pandemic has spread, organisations understandably did not put cybersecurity in the forefront while implementing a remote workspace system.

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