Security News > 2020 > June > Work From Home Opens New Remote Insider Threats

Employees working from home face a new world of workplace challenges.

That's because remote employees have been thrust into new working environments, with no face-to-face supervision and little to no training for handling new security risks.

"The trend due to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased insider threats from employees taking risks with company assets, such as stealing sensitive data for personal use or gain as employers have less visibility to what employees are doing or accessing," Joseph Carson, chief security scientist and advisory chief information security officer at Thycotic, told Threatpost.

For starters, many remote employees have not been given the appropriate training for how to secure their laptops and how to handle sensitive data in a work from home environment.

On June 24 at 2 p.m. ET, join the Threatpost edit team and our special guest, Gurucul CEO Saryu Nayyar, for a FREE webinar, "The Enemy Within: How Insider Threats Are Changing." Get helpful, real-world information on how insider threats are changing with WFH, what the new attack vectors are and what companies can do about it.

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