Remote/Hybrid workforce
Remote working and how businesses are risking their data
Luis Navarro, Co-Founder of Totality Services shares the most prominent cybersecurity risks that companies face with a remote and hybrid workforce and tips on how to mitigate them.
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he COVID-19 pandemic, and the UK Government’s message for employees to ‘Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save
lives’, forced UK firms to revaluate their entire operation. Companies were forced to seek measures that facilitated the global shiſt from centralised staff operating within a tightly controlled LAN (or series of connected LANs), to an inherently less secure remote setup featuring residential broadband connections and all manner of endpoints. Tech firms are adaptable by nature. Tey
have to be, in order to survive within what is an intensely competitive sector that rarely has time for organisations who rest on their laurels, or whose modus operandi is to seek the cheapest solution to their problems, rather than taking the time to develop effective, functional solutions to the challenges of the digital age. Without blowing our own horns too much, the same cannot be said for certain other sectors within the UK business community. As with most other aspects of commercial IT, when it comes to
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remote working, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it… and a VERY wrong way to do it. Let’s take a look at how businesses have reacted to the new environment, and what it means for data security as a whole.
Personal vs. company equipment When Boris Johnson told firms to get their staff working from home on March 20th 2020, the first question most business owners asked is “With what?”, and understandably so. Companies had no reason to keep a reserve asset pool of laptops and mobile devices that covered every last office-based employee, so most staff were asked to use their own devices. Responsible firms (or at least, those with the financial ability to) took the advice of their IT department, acknowledging that
personal devices present far more of a risk to commercial data than a centrally managed company laptop does, and set about acquiring additional hardware. Not all firms took the same approach. Once companies realised
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