Cyber Risks

In June, the Government launched their contact tracing scheme which, equipped with 25,000 NHS contact tracers, aimed to track 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day.

If you own your own business, you’ve undoubtedly opened a Facebook page in its name as part of your marketing strategy. You may even have delved into Twitter, or staked its place on LinkedIn.

Despite routers becoming increasingly easy to use and configure, most people don’t amend the settings of their router having set their Wi-Fi name and password. Yet without updating your router and security settings, you could be leaving your router open to cybercriminals and malware.

While before the coronavirus struck, the world was very much in the throes of a ‘digital age’, now more than ever, industries are doing what they can to keep up with the latest technologies and innovation.

With most office workers currently working from home, many businesses are seeing this as the catalyst towards taking the plunge towards making their business fully virtual.

As we have transformed our way of working across the nation over the past couple of months, video conferencing has become the norm when it comes to holding both business meetings and personal catch-ups.

In these times when we rely on digital forms of consumerism more than ever before, it’s essential that we remain vigilant in monitoring the legitimacy of the websites that we purchase from.

Effect on Cyber Security associated with Coronavirus (COVID-19)

As children are homeschooled during lockdown, we explore what you can do to ensure they don’t get caught out by cybercrime:

If you fail to tweak your settings after purchasing smart cameras, pet cams and baby monitors, you could be putting your home security at risk.