Work From Home Internet Safety

For many of us working from home, connecting with colleagues and friends online has become the new normal. Now more than ever, it’s important to continue practicing internet safety, a topic I have previously written about on our blog.

While refreshing yourself on ways to avoid phishing scams is important, now is also a great time to continue to practice caution online.

Working from home can relax everything from your wardrobe (hello, sweatpants) to your normal routine, but it’s important you don’t relax your internet safety measures.

What can practicing internet safety mean to you? Anything from reminding your employees and coworkers not to open fishy links to avoiding platforms that have reported security risks altogether.  One commonly used tool that has been struggling with security is Zoom, a video conferencing platform.

As people are becoming more reliant on Zoom, it has become prone to hacking. Cases of “Zoom-bombing,” cousin of the equally disruptive photobombing, have been popping up in video chats specifically on the platform. Without the appropriate security measures in place, you may be more susceptible to having unwanted guests “bomb” your meetings.

As Zoom works to solve this issue, many meetings – including anything and everything from webinars to virtual birthday parties and happy hours – are receiving unwanted guests popping in uninvited. According to Zoom, security is the utmost priority, as is protecting your meetings, data and privacy.

How do you practice internet safety?