Security News > 2020 > March > Work-from-Home Security Advice

One, employees are working from their home networks and sometimes from their home computers.

Employees working from home are going to save data on their own computers, where they aren't protected by the organization's security systems.

Three, employees are more likely to access their organizational networks insecurely.

Tricks like business email compromise, where an employee gets a fake email from a senior executive asking him to transfer money to some account, will be more successful when the employee can't walk down the hall to confirm the email's validity - and when everyone is distracted and so many other things are being done differently.

Worrying about network security seems almost quaint in the face of the massive health risks from COVID-19, but attacks on infrastructure can have effects far greater than the infrastructure itself.

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