Security News > 2020 > October > Confronting Data Risk in the New World of Work

As we move from "Just make it work" to embracing this new world of work, we've got to also confront a whole new world of risk.

Users intending to make folders shareable instead made them publicly accessible, unwittingly exposing all manner of sensitive, regulated and highly valuable data to anyone who had the right URL. What's Being Exposed? Valuable Data.

The numbers don't lie: Code42's latest data shows that in the past 30 days alone, companies have had literally millions of files exposed - more than half of which were high-value data and intellectual property, like business documents and source-code files.

It's pretty clear that conventional security tools and strategies aren't designed for this new world of work.

If companies are taking a new approach to where and how people work, then it's also time to take a new approach to how we secure and enable that work.

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https://threatpost.com/code42-confronting-data-risk-in-the-new-world-of-work/160140/