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World of work: Return to the office
World of work: Return to the office

The "Everywhere Work Report" paints a rather gloomy picture of the hybrid working world in 2023. Because there is a huge gap between what employees expect from a self-determined choice of their place of work and what employers are willing to allow. The result: burnout and dissatisfaction in German offices are reflected in an attitude of denial. For the study, 8.400 office workers, IT specialists and executives were surveyed worldwide - 1.300 of them from Germany. Since Ivanti's last "Everywhere Workplace Study 2022" the number of employees who want to choose their place of work independently has remained consistently high....

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Remote work risk: Employees without cybersecurity training
Remote work risk: Employees without cybersecurity training

A new study by Hornetsecurity has found that 33% of companies do not conduct any cybersecurity training for users working remotely. The lack of knowledge increases the risk. The study also reveals that nearly three-quarters (74%) of remote workers have access to critical data, posing a greater security risk for organizations in the new, increasingly hybrid workforce. Challenges and Risks The independent survey, which included 925 IT professionals from various industries and company sizes worldwide, also identified the challenges for security management and the risks for…

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Competition: Hacked home office devices
Competition: Hacked home office devices

The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) organized the hacking competition Pwn2Own, which quickly showed the danger that home devices, for example in the home office, pose for the security of companies. Trend Micro's ZDI uncovers vulnerabilities and helps mitigate them. Trend Micro announces the winners of its recent Pwn2Own hacking contest, held in Toronto late last week. During the event, the Japanese IT security provider's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) awarded prize money worth almost one million euros for the discovery of 63 zero-day vulnerabilities. If these vulnerabilities were exploited in real-world cyberattacks, the potential damage would be...

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Underestimated Application Layer DDoS Attacks
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

With the rise of remote working, many organizations are embracing network architectures that allow data to be processed and stored closer to the data source. DDoS attacks on the application layer are often underestimated. Although much attention has been paid to mitigating network distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, it is crucial to also address application layer DDoS attacks, which can be of particular interest to attackers. “While DDoS attacks are well known, they should not be dismissed as the norm in the current attack landscape. Cybercriminals use the results of their application layer DDoS attacks to…

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Rising Danger: DsiN Safety Index 2022
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

The current DsiN security index 2022 (Germany safe online) shows that 60 percent of consumers are not safe online. These are not only end users, but also a large number of employees in the home office who work on their own or company devices. The DsiN Security Index 2022 on the IT security situation of onliners in Germany has been published. According to this, consumers are currently less protected against cyber attacks than in the past eight years. Attacks on the Internet, on the other hand, reached a new high. On average, two thirds of all consumers (60 percent) need additional help online. More security incidents – stagnant level of protection…

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After home office: Management of mobile devices in companies 
After home office: Management of mobile devices in companies

As a result of the pandemic, IT administrators around the world have faced numerous new challenges. The rapid shift to remote working has brought with it entirely new security risks and threats that were previously unthought of. Many mobile devices are now returning to the office. Companies should have a good strategy for this. 5 Mobile Device Management Best Practices from Beyond Identity. Now it's time to review mobile device management practices. While many companies are bringing their employees back into the office, a significant number of them continue to be completely...

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4 out of 10 employees do not pay attention to IT security in the office
G Data News

This is at the expense of cybersecurity: 4 out of 10 employees do not pay attention to IT security in the office. In the private sphere, people are more careful with their digital devices - according to the numbers of the week from G DATA. Around 40 percent of employees neglect the security of their devices in the office. For them, security ends when they turn on their computer. This is confirmed by the current survey “Cybersecurity in Numbers” by G DATA in cooperation with Statista and brand eins. And when working from home, too, many people do not pay attention to IT security. Employees pay attention ...

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Study: More security incidents through home office?
Study: More security incidents through home office?

A Sophos study shows: The number of security incidents caused by home office increased in just under half of the companies surveyed in Germany. At the same time, however, the effort and costs for IT security increased - and thus possibly also protection against cyber criminals. With the beginning of the corona pandemic, companies made it possible for their employees to work from home and work on the move. The number of cyber attacks has demonstrably increased during this time, and there were many indications that this was particularly due to this short-term, organized, decentralized way of working by employees. At least this is what most of the reports on this topic suggest.

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For home office: TeamDrive brings an improved version 
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

With the new version, TeamDrive brings an optimization for the home office: data is just as safe at home as in the office. New setting for permanent encryption increases security. According to the provider, the new version 4.7 is the “safest TeamDrive” of all time. The cloud-based sync and share service recommends 2-factor authentication and encrypts locally stored data. These and all other security options can either be set by each individual user or prescribed by the administrator of a company account for all workplaces in the company. "TeamDrive has been relying on 2-factor authentication for installation and use for a long time ...

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Risk Report: Worries about IT security in the home office
Risk Report: Worries about IT security in the home office

Avast study shows that over half of IT decision-makers in small and medium-sized businesses are more concerned about cybersecurity today than they were before the pandemic. The bigger the company, the more worries about IT security in the home office. A recent survey by Avast, a leading global provider of IT security and data protection solutions, found that security fears among IT decision-makers in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have increased by 56 percent since the beginning of the pandemic to have. The more employees a company has, the more worries and hardships ...

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