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Increasing exposure to cyber risks during COVID-19

  • October 15, 2020November 4, 2020
  • by Vikram Khatri

The alarming spread of COVID-19 worldwide has led to the fastest migration in the history of employees moving their work from formal office environments to home workspaces. While this has helped achieve goals of social distancing and curbing the spread of the pandemic, it has greatly increased the possibility of security and data breaches due to deficiencies in cybersecurity measures. IT departments have been given impossibly short deadlines to cater to the move to remote work, without the opportunity to prepare for this transition. The transition to remote work has been even more challenging in organisations where the IT infrastructure and security teams were operating in silos.

Threat actors have taken advantage of cybersecurity gaps caused by widespread remote work – caused by increased pressure on IT and Security teams, end-users not following security best practices as they perform work on their own devices and exposure of critical company information outside traditional office network boundaries. Phishing, data theft and ransomware attacks have increased in quantity and severity and threat actors have used the fear of the pandemic to design new ways of performing cyber-attacks.

The increasing number and types of cyber-attacks require an automated approach to assessing, triaging and remediating security issues.

The need for improving efficiency and productivity of IT and security teams, so that they could focus on adapting and executing on cybersecurity measures in this new environment, has never been greater. The increasing number and types of cyber-attacks require an automated approach to assessing, triaging and remediating security issues. Also important is to break the barriers between the security and IT teams to ensure that they operate as one cohesive unit to meet the business needs of the larger organisation while minimising exposure to cyber risks.

Are you interested in learning about a platform which could help you optimise your cybersecurity spending and efforts in these special circumstances? Sign up for a Free Business Value Assessment here.
ServiceNow® Security Operations helps organisations connect security and IT teams, respond faster and more efficiently to threats, and get a definitive view of their security posture. It connects the workflow and systems management capabilities of the Now Platform™ with security data from leading vendors to give your teams a single platform for a response that can be shared between security and IT. With orchestration, automation, and better visibility, teams can respond more efficiently, reducing business risk.

The solution provides interdependency views between infrastructure, applications and business services so that IT and Security teams can understand the overall business impact before taking remediation actions.

The less time in-house experts spend on administrative tasks, the more they can spend on creating and implementing comprehensive cybersecurity measures.

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Maintaining a sense of connection, wellness and fun

  • June 10, 2020June 16, 2020
  • by Nicole Bailey

As Australia starts to see the light at the end of the COVID tunnel, we are slowly starting to enjoy the lifting of restrictions that have had a huge impact on our working world. The term ‘new normal’ has been used heavily over the last 10 weeks as we moved from offices to homes to keep our staff and our community safe. As we planning the slow transition back to the office in some of our regions in the coming months, and it’s given us time to reflect on how we were able to keep connection a priority during this time.

We are a global team and work seamlessly no matter our geography. Being a technology business, were able to adjust quickly to the way of working.  Our consultants continued to focus on or customers’ needs by achieving project success without skipping a beat, continuing to celebrate successful project “go lives” and welcome new customers on their own ServiceNow journey.

We also learned that being 100% online did not mean we needed to lose connection – and at Enable, we really know how to have fun! Over the last 10 weeks, we have enjoyed an excess of fun online social activities with our colleagues that have focused on learning about each other, supporting each other and ensuring we are all well and healthy : from Friday night pub quizzes to virtual cooking classes. Here are some of the ways we have maintained a sense of connection, wellness and fun with our colleagues and customers during COVID-19:

 

 

Virtual Cooking Classes

Sydney Team Challenge / Roti Making Melbourne class, From Master Chef-style cooking challenges to roti making classes, our Melbourne and Sydney teams learned some new skills and enjoyed so iso cooking together.

Enable Pub Friday

Each Friday we enjoyed a well-deserved drink together, virtually of course. We also participated in a brilliant general knowledge quiz. Hosted by Bruce Hara, Enable CEO questions written by his two super smart children. An invitation was extended to some of our customers and ServiceNow representatives to join in on all the fun.

15 Minute Magic Time

Enable’s Head of Delivery, Davina Simpson, created an amazing initiative where all 250 Enablers get to meet a colleague from another location. 15 Minute Magic Time randomly selects two Enablers each week to meet online and get to know their colleagues, where ever they are in the world.

Zoom Filters/Fancy Friday

Some of our colleagues let their creativity fly, finding fun ways to add filters their video ( Snap Filter Link) and turn their own video into a potato, a pickle, an Elf King or a unicorn. Others joined Friday night pubs in a full tux to bring a little class to the evening.

Launched LinkedIn Learn

While we are all working hard, the Head of People and Culture, Rachel Sparkes, proudly launched our new arm in our training tool kit. Launching LinkedIn learn to our Enablers to develop their soft skills

Album Challenge

A challenge was thrown down by our Head of CASE, Ian White, to recreate album covers of their favourite musician. The Friday night presentation was met with hysterical laughter as we enjoyed the creative pursuits of our colleagues.

 

Fitness Friday session

As most of us live in capital cities, our usual commute to work is via public transport while we have a little more time available we may not be getting in as much exercise as we did pre COVID-19- the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane teams encouraged each other to keep moving by hosting fitness sessions and team meetings while out walking.

Hackathon Challenges

Participation in Hackathons in collaboration with key customers x 3

Not one, not two but three Hackathons, our teams participated in the ACS Hackathon and had two team submission to ServiceNow’s Social Good Hackathon.

As we safely start to transition back to our offices, we are excited about connecting with other Enablers IRL (in real life).

 

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