With cyberthieves active during COVID-19, the Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today urged tax professionals and other business owners to review critical security steps to ensure they protect customer data when working virtually.  Many tax professionals and other businesses have expanded telework options this year as firms and other businesses work to keep personnel safe, practice recommended safety guidelines and use technology to serve their clients/customer virtually. (This post is excerpted from IRS Information Release (IR) 2020-167 issued 7/21/20.) During this period, the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have urged organizations to maintain a heightened state of alert as cybercriminals seek to exploit Covid-19 concerns. To assist businesses with the security basics, the IRS, state tax agencies and nation's tax...