On-demand Webinar: When Price and Priority Precede Security—How Cybercriminals Exploit Smart Devices

Summary

With sales of smart domestic devices booming, unsecured home workers create lucrative entry points for exploitation by cybercriminals. 75 percent of all European businesses take no steps to secure home internet connection or provide software protection for home devices. What is more shocking is over a quarter offer no protection at all, creating gaps for attackers. This heightens the risk of cyberattacks for businesses and their employees, as hybrid and home working become the norm.

Through even the most innocent of devices, bad actors can access home networks with connections to company devices—or company data on consumer devices—and seize the opportunity to steal data and intellectual property worth millions. With device security far down the list for fraught buyers trying to cut costs, and employer protection of smart home devices being afforded to few, a huge opening is left for cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the boom in smart devices in the home.

Please tune in and hear from cybersecurity expert Keiron Holyome; Vice President UK/I & Middle East and special guest Alex Scroxton; Security Editor for Computer Weekly for an inside look at the following:

• The security gap created by European homeworkers prioritising price over security
• Research findings on where companies are falling short in protecting homeworkers and their devices
• Measures being taken at a government level to increase cybersecurity on connected devices and what that means for businesses
• Measures that companies can take to evaluate and protect their entire cybersecurity landscape

Speakers

Keiron Holyome
Vice President UK/Ireland & Middle East 
BlackBerry Cybersecurity 

Alex Scroxton 
Security Editor 
Computer Weekly

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