As the news reports show, the sudden shift to employees working
from home poses new cybersecurity risks for businesses and the
employees who work remotely. Below are 10 important measures that
can help mitigate these substantial risks.
1. Encrypt Data and Tightly Control Access to Encrypted
Data.
Encrypting data at rest and in transit continues to be essential
to information security. Instruct employees to store work on the
employer's system (rather than on company-owned or personal
devices). When working with third-party vendors, review contract
terms to provide ample protection for your data.
2. Deploy Secure Devices to Remote Employees.
Most employee-owned personal computers lack important malware
and encryptions protections, and hackers already are capitalizing
on the vulnerabilities of personal computers. Such vulnerabilities
increase the risks to data on these personal computers and data
accessed from those computers (including data that resides
