Rudy Shoushany:
We have our special Acronis guest who's going to introduce himself and then we'll take it and then try to you know figure out what's happening in the consumer world you know in the cyber security consumer world in specific so please introduce yourself for our audience and then we'll take it from there.
Candid Wüest:
Absolutely my name is Candid Wüest, i'm the vice president of cyber protection research at Acronis which means i have to deal with all those cyber risks and cyber attacks on a daily basis and of course know how to protect against them.
Rudy Shoushany:
Yeah so today, you guys released the report so i'm gonna call it very because it has a lot of content, help me understand a little bit high level what's happening there you know we're going for a new year and christmas season now so how will this benefit also the consumers because there's a trend of you know shopping crazy shopping now will they be protected somehow are they any ideas or tips they can you know share?
Candid Wüest
With pleasure i mean yes the Acronis cyber threat report 2021 shows you about all the threats that we have seen this year in the second half and of course also do some predictions of what we expect to come as you mentioned the holiday season is upon us so many people will go to websites they probably never visited before and they always say if you find something and the deal is too good to be true it probably is so keep your credit cards and your data safe by just going to known websites known shops that you trust but it doesn't stop there because afterwards you will receive lots of phishing emails pretending that your special package delivery is on its way but there's one more thing that you need to add right.
Rudy Shoushany:
Say one dollar.
Candid Wüest
Exactly some taxes or opening one attachment with some important super important information and of course those are the phishing emails that try to catch you in installing malware so keep away of those kind of classical ones and of course also if you go to a new shop choose a strong password don't use the same password that you use on all your social media accounts and on your email make it unique make it strong maybe even use two-factor authentication because otherwise they will break it and then break into all your digital life and nobody wants that as a Christmas present.
Rudy Shoushany:
So these are some good tips you're offering and what do you think about the change of what's so called is the 4.5 days or now switching towards saturday and sunday as of holiday in the UAE and possibly in the region?
Candid Wüest:
It's an interesting approach and of course, with the pandemic we have you.