Fake President fraud: a scam that takes advantage of the teleworking boom Like ransomware, the Fake President fraud has taken advantage of the massive telework due to the health crisis to take off again since 2020. While in the case of ransomware, remote access technologies unsuited to telework are to blame, in this case it is the lack of face-to-face social interaction that is one of the major causes of the increase in this type of scam. How does a fake president fraud work? In a fake president fraud, a swindler who… Read More >>
Remote Control Software: A Dangerous Practice in a Telework Situation Although not suitable for teleworking, remote control software is unfortunately one of the tools used by companies to allow their employees to access their office workstations from home, from a personal computer. The relatively simple use of remote control software has sometimes made the security risks associated with this type of product seem less important. Remote control software is intended for remote maintenance with a user responsible for initiating the connection and monitoring the actions performed and is therefore clearly… Read More >>
No Long-Term Telework Without Secure Remote Access Since the first lockdown, companies’ practices in terms of remote access have significantly evolved. It is now essential for organizations to make telework sustainable and institutionalized. While most organizations have implemented dedicated telework solutions and processes, many of them still do not have a real long-term telework strategy, which must combine ergonomics and security of remote access in any situation. A key issue for organizations The sustainability of teleworking has become a real issue for organizations, as teleworking has become… Read More >>
The new security perimeter for organizations Slowly but surely, we are experiencing a radical change in the world of networks and access security. To illustrate this in a caricatured way, we are moving from a situation when an organization’s network was inside its walls and the Internet outside, to a situation where everything is based on the Internet, which is shared by all organizations’ networks. The networks of companies are now permanently installed in the Internet network via cloud infrastructures that go beyond the physical boundaries… Read More >>
HR issues of telework While the democratization of telework concerns different departments within companies, Human Resources is probably, together with the IT Department, the department whose activity has been the most impacted by telework, with new HR issues arising from this digitalization of interactions. From 100% online recruitment processes to the need to maintain social contact between all employees remotely, and to manage the work/life balance, Human Resources must, more than ever, prove their ingenuity and rely on digital tools to support these new… Read More >>
Teleworking: how to protect companies against the resurgence of cyber attacks 2020, already a difficult year from a health and economic point of view, will be a milestone in terms of cybercrime. Cyber attacks have multiplied, often exploiting vulnerabilities related to remote work. The first lockdown demonstrated the resilience of a large part of our companies, driven by dedicated IT teams whose sole objective was the impossible task of getting three million employees to telework… in just a few days. As a manager of a major French bank told me recently,… Read More >>
4 ways to promote digital ecology within your organization If digital technology accounts for about 4% of greenhouse gas emissions, the notion of digital ecology reminds us that it is not inevitable and that it is possible to reduce the environmental impact. Even it is a vector of pollution, digital technology also provides many tools to limit pollution in other activity sectors, to such an extent that it is now considered as one of the solutions to environmental issues. The environmental impacts of digital technology From the extraction of… Read More >>
What measures should be implemented to secure teleworking? Today, more than ever, the way organizations manage to secure teleworking has an impact on the overall security of information systems. Teleworking is no longer a project or a temporary exception; it is now strongly anchored in organizations’ practices and represents an additional challenge for IT departments: it is no longer a question of being able to secure the remote accesses of certain employees on a temporary basis, but rather of being able to secure the remote accesses to the… Read More >>
How to secure the BYOPC? Widely democratized in recent months due to the unexpected and massive lockdown caused by the first wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, the BYOPC (Bring Your Own PC) concept is now becoming a real issue for the IT departments of organizations. For them, this practice provides as many organizational solutions as it generates security issues for the information system. While it is generally not recommended to let employees use their personal computers to access their organization’s applications and resources, today there… Read More >>
After teleworking, are we heading towards a democratization of flex office? While telework has widely developed in organizations in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, flex office now appears as the next logical step in the reorganization of workspaces. Regular teleworking (for example one or two days a week) promotes a reorganization of offices: for the same number of employees, fewer workstations are necessary within the organization’s premises. What is the flex office? The flex office concept means that there is no dedicated office for each employee. When they are on… Read More >>