Here's how you can safeguard data security as an import/export professional working remotely.

As much as VPN are secure there are still a little hole in it, to better secure a remote user from attacker and hacker and to better improve the overall security architecture, a ZTNA can be used to protect the user and the organization by allow the remote user to connect directly to resources they need with conditional access policy. allowing the user to have access to only the resources they need and not the whole network.

Use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to encrypt your internet connection, especially when accessing company systems or transmitting sensitive data. Ensure websites and email services use SSL/TLS encryption to protect data in transit.

Use complex passwords and change them regularly.Enable Multi Factor Authentication for accessing systems and accounts to add an extra layer of security.

Use a good password manager with a strong password with MFA on password manager, if possible use FIDO2 pen to secure the password vault, accessing to server use private and public key authentication stored encrypted on password manager.

Software updates are a big step to prevent being exploited, but keep in mind that too much update can also have some issues if software gains a exploit like xz library that has became infected and ci/cd pipeline has compiled it to distribute.

SMS 2FA is proven insecure by sim swapping, try to use an offline method of 2FA like tokenized number or even usb fido pen. 2FA prevents many account takeovers

Encrypt sensitive data stored on your devices.Use encrypted communication channels for emails and file transfers. Use secure file sharing services that offer encryption and access controls and store backups securely, preferably with encryption.

If you can’t know what is sensitive or not, just encrypt everything. It’s like https in nowadays, even if page does not contain sensitive data keep it sensitive because we don’t know if what’s not sensitive today tomorrow can be a breach.

In doubt it’s scam. The main rule to apply on internet is to not trust anything, even if the site appears to be your home banking site, check the https certificate if it belongs to bank and is signed by a trusted certificate authority