THE AUTO INDUSTRY CAN SAFELY WORK FROM HOME DURING COVID-19
PANDEMIC
While some companies in the automotive industry already had
work-from-home policies in place prior to the COVID-19 crisis,
others have been caught off-guard by the sudden influx of employees
working remotely and handling sensitive data during the pandemic.
"Working from home isn't cultural when it comes to the
auto sector," Colin Dhillon, chief technical officer for the
Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, said in an April
15 webinar on cybersecurity for remote workers hosted by the
APMA.
In the short term, cloud-based tools such as Slack, Zoom, and
Google apps mean that controlling sensitive data is suddenly far
more challenging than when its movement is contained within a
company's brick-and-mortar walls. "We say allow the users
to use the apps they want, but we can prevent risky behaviour and
start dictating behaviour on what you want the user to do in [each]
specific application,"
