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Accountants are like financial doctors and Covid19 is like all your patients are sick at once | Jamie Beresford

“Whereas from a hacker’s perspective, it’s easier to trick then hack, and it’s about access security, okay? They go after the endpoint. They try and trick somebody into entering a password or they try and infect the computer and log keystrokes so that they can steal legitimate access via somebody’s accounts, okay? Now with the work from home thing, all of a sudden we’ve got these digital outposts in a business. Whereas before they were all physically inside this perceived perimeter in an office and an IT company looked after them. All of a sudden they’re out in all of these different environments, and you could have … There is a tonne of increased risk in those environments. So you’ve got home wifi that aren’t as robust and potentially a hobby wifi hacker as a next door neighbour. You’ve got shared computers that have a higher propensity to infection, because other team members…

Heather Smith
26 min readJul 1, 2020

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