If you’ve received a message from your boss requesting a gift card, it’s probably a phishing attempt. “We’re seeing a rise in gift card scams,” says Conrad Bell, Chief Information Security Officer at C Spire. “Hackers send people emails or text messages in which they pretend to be a supervisor or a senior executive. They trick employees into buying gift cards and sending them the activation codes.” Once the codes are sent, the money is gone.

With so many people now entrenched in the work-from-home culture, cybersecurity has become a renewed area of focus for many businesses that rushed to adopt remote work environments.

Employees have new expectations. Especially in regard to where and how they work. In fact, a global workforce survey sponsored by Cisco shows that only 9 percent of workers expect to return to the office 100 percent of the time after their office fully reopens. This new outlook leaves IT teams with the challenge of creating a flexible hybrid work model.

The workplace is evolving. According to a recent Fortune 500 CEO survey, 75% of companies accelerated their transformation plans because of the pandemic. As business leaders return to the workplace, they are adapting at a record pace. These changes are forcing organizations toward a digital-first model that has security integrated into every solution along with workplace monitoring capabilities. A model that can adapt to a safe remote and hybrid work environment that employees can thrive in.

In order to make this transition, organizations need to consider solutions that empower employees to collaborate securely from trusted workplaces, no matter where they work from. Here are tips for transforming your workplace into a safe space.

This Christmas, we don’t come bearing French hens, turtle doves or a partridge in a pear tree. Instead, our gift is valuable security advice that could save your organization millions. Here are 12 tips that will make your business more secure this Christmas and in the new year. 

As we move into 2022 and the ripple effects of the pandemic persist, more organizations will realize the value in cloud-based digital business. Over the next year, we predict cloud technologies will help businesses in two ways: