I know that the biggest risks companies are facing this year is COVID but, there are many more risk that are unlock because, of COVID. Millions of people are working from home around the world as the coronavirus pandemic spreads and authorities plead for people to stay at home to slow the rate of contagion. Though people staying and working from home helps stop the spread of the virus, it increases the likelihood of companies getting hacked through weakness in employees home networks and misuse of VPN. Because people are working from home, they’re also more likely to answer their phone when an unknown number calls, or be more susceptible to calls faked to look like their own phone numbers. They might think a co-worker is calling or their defense might be down with kids at home and a general heightened level of stress.

To avoid companies from getting hacked, it starts with the boss of it to take control so that they will never seem like their defense is down. The first thing I recommend them to implement is to check up on their employees every hour to make sure their not getting distracted. Give your employees time frames that they should meet, while working at home, make sure they know just because their home doesn’t mean to slack off. To approach the solution this way you can call your employees on the company phone to see how they doing, how the work getting alone and if they have any questions or problems with their work. Another way is to sign in to your computer and look at their work through your screen, like to spy on them without them knowing. This is a good way you to make sure your employees is not slack off, that way your company will be on notice with everything going on. The second thing I recommend is fir the company to install their own vpn in their employees house to lower the risk of getting hacked. This way will save the trouble to keep checking up on your employees but, will cost you just to keep your company up and running. VPN will be your best bet for your company not to be hacked by anyone, it’s the best defense of line for you.

By placing these solutions into your company systems you are giving yourself the upper hand on these hackers that are trying to break into your security and damage your company as a whole. These two solutions are the best two that you can use to make sure your company doesn’t go three that. Even though one is greater than the other it’s still the top two. Now that the world is going through a pandemic that has the state taking a turn on how things are getting run, new problems are escalating in the world to damage companies. You have to have your head on the swivel, nobody’s safe and you can’t trust nobody either. With this pandemic in the world it’s to easy for hackers to get into companies and break them down inside out.

This risk with affect companies and employees both. For the employees they will be out of a job, they will lose their only type of source of money to pay their bills and take care of their family. The company will take the biggest affect because, they will have to rebuild everything back up from scratch and have to make it back up to the top. This pandemic is really hurting the economy and making businesses go out of business, we have to take the necessary precautions to eliminate the risk on the economy and grow back to what we once were.