Work from Home Scams and Security
December 9, 2008
There are many legitimate reasons to be working from home, especially as Australian cities get busier, the roads become more congested, and we try to be more conscious of the environment. If you’ve ever been curious to know how work from home scams work, the Australian government SCAMwatch can fill you in.
And if you are already working from home the things to consider are; protecting printed information, encrypting portable media, connecting to the office through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and disabling split tunneling that allows a user to connect an insecure network at the same time as the work network.
Equally important to setting a home worker up, is helping them work from home without growing isolated. Unified Communications (VoIP and a webcam) along with Web 2.0 technologies such as corporate wikis and blogs allow the home worker to communicate with the office, and of course, other home workers.
