Reports and research on the habits of organizations embracing remote or hybrid work continue to shed light on the inherent cybersecurity risks, including a recent Tenable study that found 74% of organizations attribute recent business-impacting cyberattacks to remote work tech vulnerabilities.
According to the report, conducted with Forrester, cloud services and apps, personal devices and remote access tools have essentially eliminated organizations’ security perimeters, resulting in more cyberattacks and compromise as IT managers struggle to manage the new technologies.
Now, 80% of security and business leaders say their organizations are more exposed to risk as a result of remote work, which the survey says was driven by three factors: a lack of visibility into remote employee home networks, the expansion of the software supply chain and migrating to the cloud.
According to the research, over half of remote workers use a personal device to access work data, and 71% of security leaders lack sufficient visibility into remote employee home networks, leading to a large portion of cyber attacks (67%) targeting remote employees.
Recent cyberattacks have also highlighted threat…
