Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle the big issues we were all facing and continue to face as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. As a special treat for all our readers, Ardent is excited to present the recorded sessions from that Virtual Series.

This presentation focuses on the technology risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic and how to protect against them. While everyone is (rightfully) focused on aspects such as trust, consistency, and work/life balance, there is a critical measure often missed: cyber-risk. Cyber security expert Dr. Marcus K. Rogers, Ph.D., CISSP, CCCI, DFCP, joined us to chat about how these major risks will be exacerbated in the face of a work-from-home technological landscape.

With a newly remote workforce, there are a huge number of issues that managers must tackle for the first time. To assist them, our series hits on key topics and questions that look at the new world of work and the new world of work in the age of corona. We will look at the big picture and what the impact of the pandemic has had on the workforce. Highlights include:

• Cyber threats often use a crisis as a way to create more chaos.
• Fragmented foundations could be a veritable playground for cyber threat activity.
• The same practices and standards used for typical office infrastructures must be followed for home networks.
• Today’s current crisis is the “perfect storm” for cyberattacks and similar activity.

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