As the Covid-19 virus takes a huge toll on human lives across the globe, front-line medical teams and hospitals are working tirelessly to help contain and remediate the pandemic in every city. Yet despite all the emotional anxiety and desperation that’s happening around the world, some trolls are taking advantage of the panic and fear by launching ruthless malware attacks and phishing email scams across the globe. To make matters worse, as most employees around the world are working-from-home (WFH) over the internet and tracking and contact tracing apps are deployed, this exposes most people, personal data, businesses, and institutions to cyber attacks.
Phishing email scams may take keywords related to Covid-19 news, stories and issues to entice the recipient to accidentally click the link in the email or through a pop-up advertisement on an unsecured site. The attacks can be immediate or can linger within a system to steal data or encrypt data for ransom. Some attacks may simply spread through unsecured VPNs or home networks to other devices both at home and at office. Some of these malware attacks have even targeted healthcare businesses and hospitals in an attempt to seize patient data or cripple their systems.
With sensitive personal data of customers stored in most organizational databases, data protection laws require these organizations to employ adequate security systems that comply to their designated industry standards. A breach of such data could penalize the organization with hefty fines and legal suits from government agencies as well as affected customers. This also includes service oriented businesses such as law, tax, audit and accounting firms that store sensitive client information and data on their office databases. These businesses have been entrusted with the security and confidentiality of those data.
Further, contact tracing and tracking apps or web-services have been rapidly thrown into action by some agencies without any assurances or safety standards for the recording and handling of the personal and private data of all its residents. A breach in those services via malware or brute hacking could expose millions of individual’s personal information to the hackers. Especially when such impromptu devices and stations are set up and manned by various level of contractors and temporary staff with no adequate security systems or protocols.
Since most organizations have rapidly moved to the internet to enable WFH arrangements in view of immediate government lock-downs, most office-based security systems and postures have been significantly reduced, making these organizations extremely vulnerable to attacks. Further, with the use of unsecured networks, freemium VPNs and devices to facilitate the WFH arrangements, entire businesses and its confidential business data has become entirely exposed without adequate end-point protection systems.
Bitdefender is currently offering a 12 month’s free enterprise grade protection for all healthcare organizations in support for the healthcare organizations worldwide fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. As a proud Silver Reseller of Bitdefender, we too would extend our support alongside Bitdefender to all healthcare organizations, from dental practices to large hospitals, in Singapore*.
We currently also offer heavily discounted enterprise grade protection for all Non-Profit organizations and charities in Singapore to help them tide through this difficult time and reduce their IT costs. We understand that moving forward, even after the pandemic, raising funds and donations will be difficult as the world’s economy slowly begins to recover. We have even offered free anti-virus solutions to some of our new and existing charity organizations.
We would also like to extend our heavily discounted enterprise grade protection for all service related industries and SMEs in Singapore who recently have implemented WFH arrangements and would like to secure their business assets, data and devices while reducing their overhead IT costs for the long run. We even offer 12 month’s free anti-virus solutions for critical assets to protect personal devices of employees during this WFH period; subject to certain terms and conditions.
As most anti-virus renewal or subscription costs are likely to impact the cash-flows of most businesses going forward, we provide an exclusive “Switch-over” offer with heavily discounted Bitdefender products to help businesses free up cash flows and overheads for other business needs. We even offer discounts equivalent to the remaining prepaid subscription fees on your other anti-virus solution. We would also recommend managed end-point detection and remediation services for businesses with no dedicated IT teams to help protect and manage their data protection, security, remediation and compliance.
Also, as most institutes of higher learning (IHL) use online learning platforms to facilitate classes and examinations, we would like to extend our assistance to all tertiary education institutions in Singapore with our specially discounted volume licensing bundle that protects the institution’s assets and its students’ devices. We envision safe learning zones and internet for all students and lecturers with Bitdefender’s enterprise grade security and protection suites.
For those traveling soon when the government lock-downs and travel restrictions are lifted, protect your devices from unsecured wireless networks and sites while overseas. In the event you misplaced your device, Bitdefender’s Total Security has features for you to locate your device or even message your device remotely. But in the unfortunate event your device is stolen or lost, you may consider encrypting the device or remotely ‘wiping’ the data contents inside from further data loss or theft.
This online offer is for all persons, SME entities (all industries), businesses, organizations and IHLs in Singapore and is valid up to 30 June 2020 on an application basis. Feel free to contact us by filling up the form below and share with us your current deployment so we can help design your cyber-security posture during your WFH and even after Covid-19. Stay safe and contact us!
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*Subject to terms and conditions. Excludes installation and deployment services. Subject to number of devices. All rights reserved.
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