Work from home, work from anywhere: Are you secure everywhere?

2020-06-17 04:00

As millions of employees continue to work from home for the foreseeable future and in some cases perhaps indefinitely, balancing the ongoing demands of employee productivity and information security will be paramount.

When the pandemic first hit, IT departments responded quickly with what one IT analyst called the "Remote Lite" approach-just get staff the basic equipment they need to work from home as efficiently as possible.

Now "Remote Lite" needs to quickly morph into a more "Remote Right" approach which takes into account the requirements of permanently managing remote employees' security, connectivity and productivity.

As many security experts agree, remote work is rapidly expanding the potential attack surface for hackers as the number of endpoint devices given access to a corporation's network increases.

A recent survey conducted by Barracuda Networks found that "Almost half of global businesses have encountered at least one cybersecurity scare since shifting to a remote working model during the COVID-19 lockdown." Cyberattacks that result in the theft of sensitive financial and customer data or intellectual property are just a few of the threats remote workers' unsecured home networks, poorly managed devices or compromised VPN connections can expose.

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