Quarantine Spikes Internet Use by 70%

Online Traffic is Soaring

COVID-19 has placed individuals and businesses in an unprecedented position to maintain business as usual during our ‘new normal’. Most brick-and-mortar businesses have been forced to close their doors temporarily. Forbes has reported that global self-isolation policies are at their peak, increasing internet use by as much as 70%.

Surging online traffic has increased the demand for cybersecurity solutions and trust services as cyber attacks have increased by 37% according to InfoSecurity. Is your team prepared for the challenge?

Here are ways you can protect yourself:

The decrease of in-person interactions makes phishing emails a popular cyber attack, designed to trick employees into providing compromising information to fraudsters. Thankfully with email certificates, you can help your customers reduce exploits by ensuring emails are from the true senders.

With increasingly more cautious internet users, help your customers boost their site visitor’s trust with easily accessible, verified business details and dynamic site seals through EV SSL certificates.

For business websites serving the heightened online traffic, any type of data disrupting event — such as a malicious code intrusion, a user error or a hardware malfunction — can be a costly and time-consuming ordeal. Ensure you have ample server space and offsite backup plans in place and running. All of our plans include 500GB of offsite storage make a point to check or open a support ticket for us to see if this is still sufficient and upgrade if not.

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