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The COVID-19 pandemic is the major cataclysm of our time. Global events of such scale bring on world-wide ramifications and inevitably end up changing the course of history. One could argue that the last time humanity faced a global crisis that created such a level of uncertainty was 80 years ago - and while we are not technically in a world war (although some kind of "vaccine wars" may have already started with a few nations starting to show their teeth...), the current situation does have some parallels.

While it's good to be optimistic about the future, the reality is that the business environment won't go back to the way it was in early 2020. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions have permanently changed attitudes and behaviours - and what expectations are realistic for many businesses in 2021 and beyond. Here we offer a few ideas to help companies make it through challenging times.

We have a big problem in Australia. We learnt to use words like "innovation" and "digital" well. A bit too well. By the term "use", I mean senselessly throw around to be trendy amongst our peers in business. Every man and his dog is a digital expert at the forefront of digital innovation nowadays. Government is entirely on the bandwagon, flooding the market with guides, seminars and workshops as to how to digitise your business when they should be instead focused on getting their own digital affairs in order (e.g. the "COVIDSafe" Coronavirus App & the March 2020 MyGov/Centrelink failure).

Four-legged, two-legged, no-legged companion creatures, great and small, John Grima loves them all. Born in the rural outskirts of Sydney, John's passion for any animal or fish was obvious from the beginning. It's no surprise that from that early love, John now owns and runs one of the largest pet store operations in Australia - a superstore that offers support to all pet owners at every stage of their pet's life cycle.

In Part I, I went over some of the key security issues that business operators can be caught out with. These included issues such as Online Identity Theft, "Phishing" and Passwords. In this Part II article, the discussion on the topic continues with more IT security principles that cover protection of your domain names, cryptocurrency blackmail scams, viruses and some other general ways as to how to fortify your business against breaches.