Millions of workers around the world have shifted from offices to working from home since the COVID-19 outbreak. Here, Joshua Burch, FTI’s Head of Cybersecurity in EMEIA, offers timely advice for businesses to help mitigate the increased risk of a cyber breach that comes with that shift.
The sudden surge in remote working, while a practical solution to the acute circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is causing challenges for information security teams. The flood of employees logging in to company networks from afar opens the door wider for malicious threat actors to breach company cyber defenses through home computers and devices.
Further, unsecured home networks leave companies with less control than they had in the pre-COVID days. It’s now more difficult to remotely issue periodic security updates for employees, a noticeable difference from just a few months ago when the majority of work took place at a centralised location.
Companies can protect critical assets whilst best serving their remote work forces by identifying and addressing the following four key cybersecurity gaps.
1. Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.
It’s every employee’s…
