In the immediacy of COVID-19, organizations quickly turned to remote work to keep their businesses afloat. But many didn’t realize how vulnerable this move made them. Sungard Availability Services’ (Sungard AS) Asher de Metz, Security Consulting, Senior Manager and Richard Hahn, Consulting Manager, Information Security join IT Availability Now to break down the impact the pandemic has had on cybersecurity and the challenges remote working presents to security teams:

• How remote working can undermine a company’s overall security posture
• The relationship between the pandemic and cyberattacks
• Simple, impactful steps businesses can take to protect themselves

Oliver Lomer is a Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at Sungard AS, where he illustrates business challenges and how technology can solve them through engaging content. Oliver has six years’ experience in marketing, commercial and sales enablement roles in global technology organizations.

As Security Consulting, Senior Manager at Sungard AS, Asher de Metz helps companies identify risks and secure their systems by conducting security audits and tests to avoid cybersecurity attacks. With almost 20 years of experience in information technology and security, Asher has been involved in hundreds of IT-security projects and has provided security counsel to some the largest companies throughout the U.K., Europe, Middle East and North America within the financial, government, retail, healthcare, insurance and manufacturing industries.

With over 20 years of experience in information security and risk management, Richard Hahn has extensive experience developing security and privacy programs, performing security assessments, delivering vulnerability management and data governance solutions, and more. As Consulting Manager, Information Security at Sungard AS, Richard advises organizations on information security solutions and the health and protection of organizational data.