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Secure Connectivity & COVID19
It’s important to keep your business secure as Coronavirus continues to force more people to work from home
Coronavirus and Your Business Security
“The simple fact is corporate working practices will never be the same again both during and following the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: the percentage of remote workers will likely increase as lockdown restrictions decrease..”
Mike Gatty, Head of Secure Connectivity
Secure, reliable connectivity is critical to all business operations but has a particular role to play in supporting remote working at scale. Many organisations will find some systems, particularly firewalls, internet links and remote access gateways, stretched to capacity and these will be essential to support continuing operations.
Secure Remote Access
Most modern organisations have tried and tested mechanisms to enable employees to access their core applications and systems remotely. However, these will usually be based on a sub-population of the employee base attempting to access them at a given time. A significant increase in the number of remote workers will need to be planned for and provisioned.
How Maintel can help:
- Advising on the capacity of firewalls, remote access gateways, Two-Factor Authentication platforms and internet-facing circuits – monitoring usage and increasing capacity if required
- Cyber-criminals will likely increase their activity to exploit the current situation. Maintel can help protect organisations by providing managed security services such as DNS filtering to suppress the effectiveness of Malware and phishing attacks, Two-Factor Authentication to reduce the incidence of unauthorised access to systems, and malware protection to keep laptop and mobile devices secure even when they are in employee’s homes
- Advising IT and security teams on how to enable voice, UC, and contact centres to securely traverse firewall and other security tools
Protecting Data & Devices
Remote working may result in important data being cached locally on laptops and other devices which can be more at risk when not kept in secure business premises.
How Maintel can help:
- Providing Mobile Device Management services to protect data at rest, remotely wipe or disable devices if they are lost or stolen and enforce data retention policies
- Ensuring devices receive critical security updates to keep them protected against the latest threats and vulnerabilities.