Security News > 2020 > June > Remote employees encounter 59 risky URLs per week

Working remotely from home has become a reality for millions of people around the world, putting pressure on IT and security teams to ensure that remote employees not only remain as productive as possible, but also that they keep themselves and corporate data as secure as possible.

Even less so in the case of BYOD. Remote workers attempting to access risky content.

The assumption is that a large number of employees connected to protected internal networks would have been prevented from accessing this risky content.

Key findings Employees, on average, encounter 8.5 risky URLs per day, or 59 per week.

"As this research highlights, remote workers are frequently accessing risky content that would normally be blocked by firewalls and other security tools that monitor internal network traffic. Naturally, this poses an enormous threat to the enterprise," said Achi Lewis, EMEA Director, NetMotion Software.

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