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The Tabush Group Support Team is seeing many common issues from our clients who are all transitioning to working from home.  The following are some recommendations to ensure a good IT setup when working from home. 

The Tabush Group Support Team is seeing many common issues from our clients who are all transitioning to working from home.  To help speed up resolution and perhaps enable you to attain your own solution, please review the following points.

Tabush Group put together a group of experts to answer questions and help guide firms through this uncertainty.  Our panel provided advice on technology, ensuring company culture, and logistics for remote work.

COVID-19 is affecting companies all around the globe and nearly all companies have already implemented work from home plans.  As companies start to make this switch, it is important to continue to conduct business as usual, as best as possible.  In order to do this, we recommend that whenever possible, meetings should be conducted via video.  Virtual meetings help you maintain contact, relationships, and human interactions and also helps keep everyone focused during the meeting.

For many CEOs, leading through a crisis is nothing new, whether that be a cyber breach, a natural disaster, or a financial emergency.  But now, the entire globe is facing something never before experienced with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.  In many ways, the word “crisis” does not even begin to describe the uncertainty of what the world – let alone your individual company – needs to prepare to face and overcome.

As the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to grow, the consuming amount of news coverage surrounding the virus has created a new danger – cybercriminals looking to exploit public fears using malware attacks.  It is very important to be cautious for scams in times of uncertainty.  We highly recommend the following tips on what you can do to make you, your colleagues & your families safer online.

As coronavirus (COVID-19) rapidly spreads across the globe, many companies are taking proactive steps to protect their employees, including shutting offices and transitioning to working from home.  Our company is centered on enabling professionals to achieve this, so we put together some recommendations to ensure you, too, can work productively from home.

At Tabush Group, we are closely tracking the developments and recommendations of the CDC and other experts regarding coronavirus (COVID-19).  The health and safety of our employees and clients is of the utmost importance.

Ransomware is not a new phenomenon but for cybercriminals it has become a popular technique to use.  In a ransomware attack, cybercriminals block access to a business or individual’s computer system and hold data hostage until a ransom is paid.  Here, cybercriminals have just one goal - to receive payment from the victim.  Even if the victim is able to pay the ransom, there is no guarantee the criminal will provide the decryption key to release the data.

Recently, ransomware attacks have become significant threats to corporations, cities, and even nations.  In the third quarter of 2019, the average ransomware payout increased to $41,000, a 13% increase from the second quarter.  Also in 2019, 55% of SMBs paid cybercriminals to recover their stolen data.  If nothing else, 2019 proved that ransomware is still a profitable business for cybercriminals and it will continue to get worse.