Security News > 2021 > January > CISOs Prep For COVID-19 Exposure Notification in the Workplace

Think of physical access, badge access, wireless access, you know, all these sorts of building access type things that you can use to say, okay, who was in the building at what time, who has been exposed, these are demands that we're seeing the market asked for that CISOs are having to bear the burden for.

So there's all sorts of new demand on the CISO. So there's possible litigation at the feet of employers, if they go back, and they're sort of needed outcome around exposure notification, and this sort of vaccination status, a wallet need and where that goes, I don't know.

You know, even I'm sure, obviously, this is going to be kind of a boon for large corporations, but even just, you know, SMBs, that might not have kind of the budget there to handle that.

What if all of this is just too much? What if an individual is says, "Look, you know, what, I've been a loyal employee. This is too much for me to handle, you don't need to know what my vaccination status is, I'm just going to work from home, it doesn't matter anymore. I'm not coming into your office." You know, what does that mean for the employer? And the employee? Is that means to terminate employment? Is there a way, you know, does this increased even more than the virtual nature of our work for many of us today? What if somebody doesn't believe in vaccinations, but some contract says everybody in the building must be? There's a lot of social implications to this as well.

You know, what this means in terms of giving up valuable data and, you know, you mentioned HIPPA before, that's something that's important to kind of think about there.

You know, I just think that already the workplace has shifted so much over the past year, you know, the remote work and everything else.

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