Employers should consider deploying a corporate-owned router to the home and putting all business traffic on a VPN architecture to the data centre. This will maintain consistency with existing in-office policies while staff continue to work from home. Employers need to be reminded of the common pitfalls to watch out for, such as phishing emails which can lead to data breaches and ransomware attacks. With hackers looking to exploit the COVID-19 situation, robust network security is absolutely essential to avoid trading in one virus for another.”]