It’s why, in a recent Tenable study, 80 percent of them said remote work exposes their organizations to greater risk.

Security and business leaders understand the dangers of working from home. Because of this, remote professionals may be exposing valuable company information simply by logging on. Most employees’ homes aren’t equipped with firewalls or IP blacklists, never mind the connections at cafes and airports. If IT teams can’t track and enforce security protocols on these new programs, the odds that hackers will obtain company data increase. Without proper governance, employees might download malicious applications, or, more commonly, a remote worker might download safe applications that they fail to regularly update or that hackers eventually compromise.

The second reason relates to the use of unauthorized applications. This creates a digital footprint that bad-faith actors can use to collect information about the company.

In remote settings, these conversations happen online. In the office, someone from sales might approach a product engineer about the specs of their company’s solution. The first is an overreliance on digital communications.

There are three primary reasons why these breaches continue to happen. Increased Cybersecurity Threats The Challenge: Remote Workers Are Vulnerableįollowing the shift to remote work, there was a 768 percent increase in remote-desktop protocol attacks between Q1 and Q4 2020.

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