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Our biggest threats and how we can prepare for them. Climate change, human environmental damage and increasing inequalities due to the COVID-19 pandemic are amongst the top threats our world will face in the next ten years, according to the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. Effective global cooperation,…
Views from the experts on occupational health and safety in a pandemic. It’s been around a year since the COVID-19 pandemic turned our world upside down, and that includes the world in which we work. Certainty has hung up its hat, normality looks unlikely to return and unpredictability is here…
Don’t be surprised to find your workplace different from the one you left. As companies from all over the world head back to work, new working patterns, changes in the current work landscape, and overall workplace readiness will become main priorities in order to ensure a safe and efficient transition…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global business environment. During various global implementation practices for managing the pandemic, we were the audience to experience various lockdown regulations, businesses who had to make difficult decisions regarding cash flow, retrenchment of staff, placing of people on furlough and in severe circumstances, the…
Hackers see any crisis situation as an opportunity to maximize the impact of their attacks and take advantage of the weaknesses and lack of vigilance generated by crises. The global spread of COVID-19 is not an exception to this “rule.” Ever since the first reports on the global health crisis…
The increasing rate of cyberattacks on organizations around the globe has produced huge financial gains for cybercriminals. The vast number of threats includes “Insider attacks,” “Malware,” and now the emergence of COVID-19 threats to mention a few. If these threats are not addressed, there is a likelihood that some organizations…
20-20 HINDSIGHT — FROM THE 1920s TO 2020 — WHAT CAN WE LEARN? In 1929, the vibrant U.S. economy went through the greatest shock it had ever received when the stock market crashed. A frightened and bewildered Congress, flaying for answers, summoned the economic chieftains of the day to testify…
In the months since the first news reports about a mysterious “pneumonia strain” — now known as the “novel Coronavirus” — were first flagged from Wuhan, China, the outbreak has left the world reeling. It is not just individuals who have been badly hit. National economies, governments, and businesses too…
In the context of the major health crisis caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), that our planet is going through, hackers and cybercriminals are trying to take advantage of the situation to attack the impacted companies and exploit their vulnerabilities, particularly those caused by teleworking. A great number of companies…
A CYBERSECURITY PERSPECTIVE FROM DR. IZUAKOR, A CYBERCULTURE HACKER What does leadership mean to you from a cybersecurity perspective? When it comes to cybersecurity, it seems as though there is always a fire to fight. Whether it is a new vulnerability impacting the company, the risk of failing an audit,…
