Our Business Development Manager and IFB’s newest recruit, Jana Vidis shares her insights about starting a new job in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, home working and the associated challenges and opportunities it brings, as well as a key cyber resilience project she’s been working on.

We get locked down but we get up again. We are #TeamIFB and here is what we are most looking forward to post lockdown

Read how the accounts department of IFB has adapted to a new way of working during the COVID-19 pandemic, from utilising Microsoft Teams for collaborative working to maintaining work/life balance.

While the threat and protection industry has been here since the first computers sparked into life, Cyber security is a new thing and for many of us, it really hasn’t been a massive consideration until we have become the always connected and online economy we are now.

It is hard to believe that in a society so heavily regulated, an activity that reaches into every business, and affects everyone, has no form of recognised and universal standard and regulation with it.

A vital part of any cyber security strategy and plan must be an off network back up of your data.

There is a whole squad of us that have grown up using digital technology without enough training or education. If you think about it, have you been trained to use the laptop, mobile or tablet you are on now or the software you use every day to do your job or pay your bills or support and manage your family in any meaningful way?

First up and to be honest – no one and no thing connected to a public network is 100% secure regardless of how hard try - we the honest folks are up against others so do not care about laws, boundaries, ownership, or sovereignty – they are truly lawless.