Working from home: How to stay secure online

Working from home and accessing work resources on home networks raises cybersecurity risks. PHOTO: ST FILE
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SINGAPORE - The recent spate of scams targeting bank users in Singapore underscores how cybercrime is a real danger that we cannot take lightly.

But working from home and accessing work resources on home networks invariably raises cybersecurity risks, as we go about our jobs cloistered far from the safe harbour of the office network and without easy access to the IT department.

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