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How can employers help prevent phishing attacks during COVID-19
Published on: 28/04/2020
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Laura Gillespie
Laura Gillespie

In a recent webinar 'Workplace Data Protection in the Home' by Legal Island and Pinsent Masons, Laura Gillespie, Partner at Pinsent Masons LLP discusses how your employees must be alive to phishing scams, giving practical tips and information that employers must keep in mind when employees are working in challenging times.

Watch the video below:

You can listen to the full webinar recording here:

https://www.legal-island.com/articles/uk/features/supplementary/2020/april/workplace-data-protection-in-the-home/

Training Resources

[New] Protecting Data when Home Working in Northern Ireland

With most organisations suddenly having remote working thrust upon them, what are you doing to protect your employees, customers and reputation? Compliance around data and data protection for remote workers is very important.

This is why we created a 30-minute course to protect you and your organisation. Data breaches are often accidental and the result of staff carelessness. The fear and panic surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) have produced a perfect ‘high stress’ environment for cyber criminals.

Click here to find out more about this course

Click here to get a FREE demo

Additional Resources

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberaware/home

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/

Coronavirus (COVID-19): fraud and cyber crime - Advice and guidance on how to protect yourself and your business from fraud and cyber crime - GOV.UK - Click here 

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 28/04/2020