Everything you need to keep you secure when working from home

Working from home is a little bit different from working in the office. After you’ve endured the commute you spend your day in an office, normally using company kit and enjoying all of the trimmings that come with it. If you work for a larger company there’ll be an IT help desk and you’ll enjoy the benefit of broadband, IP phones and all those other in-office extras. There might even be free coffee.

Working from home misses out most if not all of that stuff, but there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to enjoy office-style support even when you’re holed up in the box room or working on the kitchen table. What’s more, if you’re working from home it’s just as important to make sure you’re covered by the same policies that safeguard you and your activities during the daily grind.

Antivirus advantage

antivirus software should be at the top of your shopping list when it comes to working from home. If you’re using a work-owned laptop then it should be up to date anyway, but it’s also important to ensure you (or anyone else) doesn’t start using it for non-work based activities. If you’re leaving your home-based desk space for any amount of time then it’s also worth logging out to avoid any unwanted tampering of your machine by family or friends, inadvertently or otherwise.

Proper protection

There are actually lots of pretty basic measures you can take to help ensure that you and your work are more secure when you’re working from home. Arming yourself with a Virtual Private Network (or VPN) is a great starting point. You’ll find plenty of different versions of the VPN available for download and having one installed on your machine will mean hiding your IP address, keeping your data encrypted and more secure as well as offering up location anonymity.

To be on the safe side it’s probably best