Episode 8: Boost Your Bandwidth
Stretching your Wi-fi to its limits? Is the Wi-fi set up that served your freelance work load well now struggling to handle the pandemic reality of multiple people working and studying from home? Does your Wi-fi’s strength limit where people can work and study in your home? The Wi-fi that worked reliably for my freelance
Episode 5: Protecting Your Home Office From Your Smart Home
The FBI has described the surge in IoT devices as giving bad actors—the formal term for hackers—“a virtual drive-by of your digital life.” These devices are vulnerable to bad actors and open all devices in the home to hacking. If you work from home, you need to protect your home office from your smart home.
Episode 6: Are Your Consultants & Employees Broadcasting Your Company Secrets From Their Home Offices?
On today’s podcast, we address the question: Are your consultants and employees broadcasting your company secrets from their home offices? Are your contractors, consultants, and employees adequately protecting your sensitive information and intellectual property when they work from home? As we have reported before, smart home devices with speakers—for example, Siri, Alexa, Amazon Echo, Google
Episode 4: The Freelancer’s Guide to Passwords & Encryption
In today’s episode, I review password and encryption options so you can select and apply the best option for securing your projects. This topic is especially relevant now. With the sudden shift to remote work back in the spring, cybercrime has spiked as bad actors have taken full advantage of these security vulnerabilities that have
Episode 2: Change the Locks
Why do people who no longer work with or for you have access to your online accounts? Whether they are project files in the cloud or your website, why do people with whom you no longer collaborate have access? In this episode, we discuss why that’s risky and how to quickly and easily “change the locks” to safeguard your business and your privacy.
Episode 1: 7 Easy Steps for Working Securely from Home
Whether you have a home-based business or are working from home for the foreseeable future due to the pandemic, your working-from-home setup is likely far less secure than you think. Here are 7 easy steps for working securely from home.
How to Protect Sensitive Files: A Guide to Passwords & Encryption
Do you work with sensitive client data? Have you signed an NDA requiring you to secure clients’ information? Here’s how to properly secure your computer and safeguard the intellectual property entrusted to you.