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title: Shift4Shop eCommerce Blog | Brian Skewes
description: Brian Skewes is a technologist into deconstruction. Over two decades of self-employment, he has accumulated a wealth of inadvertent real-world lessons related to building, running, and preserving a small company.
---
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# Brian Skewes
Brian Skewes is a technologist into deconstruction. Over two decades of self-employment, he has accumulated a wealth of inadvertent real-world lessons related to building, running, and preserving a small company.
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[https://brianskewes.com/ ](https://brianskewes.com/)
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## [4 Cybersecurity Myths That Can Jeopardize Your Organization](https://blog.shift4shop.com/cybersecurity-myths)
By [Brian Skewes](https://blog.shift4shop.com/author/brian-skewes) [December 02, 2020](https://blog.shift4shop.com/cybersecurity-myths) [2 Comments](https://blog.shift4shop.com/cybersecurity-myths#comments-listing)
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If COVID-19 hasn’t touched your life yet, consider yourself lucky.
This pandemic has impacted the daily lifestyles of everyone, from corporate heads to stay-at-home parents. With fluctuating shelter-in-place orders and lockdowns around the world ongoing, people are spending more and more time online, attending virtual meetings, completing digital assignments, and shopping from home.
But, alongside this increase in screen time, the pandemic has seen a rapid rise in cybersecurity breaches for\[...\]
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