Security News > 2020 > April > Work-from-home creates multitude of opportunities for leaks

"We anticipated that things would get bad. Companies and agencies may be hoping and praying they are safe, but the work-from-home environment has created a multitude of opportunities for leaks. Too many organizations have left themselves wide open for attack. Understanding the pathways for access within a company's data network is a valuable lens for businesses and agencies to avert leaking their own assets," said Dr. Barbara Rembiesa, CEO and President, IAITAM. Assets left unsecured.

In some cases, companies with high-end virtual private networks pre-loaded on business computers are allowing people to work from home on personal devices either with no VPN or with a lower-end virtual private network that may be less hacker resistant.

More and more reports are emerging of companies purchasing new devices or technology to account for employees working from home.

In one case reported directly to IAITAM a national health care company ordered 9,000 new laptop computers from a major online company and gave its IT department less than a week to prep the new machines and deliver them to users, who had little or no time for training and other security-related instructions.

Many company devices were deployed into a WFH situation quickly, leaving little time to ensure that they would be secure via a VPN or other means.

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