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How to Protect Your Home Office From Hacking and Cyber-Attacks

Zahra Ahmad
5 min readMar 9, 2021

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Few simple steps to protect your computer at home office from attacks and phishing. Such attacks cause significant harm, however can be avoided in very simple steps, let’s go through them.

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Hacking and Cyber-attacks during the COVID19 era

With nearly half of the world’s workforce migrating to the internet and work from home at the start of the Corona pandemic crisis last year, many companies found themselves struggling to ensure that employees can work from home without compromising sensitive data.

For organizations that are not equipped to have their staff fully remote, this means a comprehensive reform of cybersecurity ecosystems in a very short period of time. Even companies with pre-existing protocols and policies to work remotely have had to rethink the meaning of this sweeping transformation of their data security, and how to adapt to an evolving threat system.

More than a year into this situation, some companies have adopted remote work as a perennial method of work, cybersecurity remains a top priority among business leaders. Cases of fraud, deception and data breaches are rife, and remote work is at least partially responsible. One study found that nearly half of all UK organizations had experienced a cybersecurity and…

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Zahra Ahmad
Zahra Ahmad

Written by Zahra Ahmad

MSc in Data Science, I love to extract the hell out of any raw data, sexy plots and figures are my coffee

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