Remote work has proven incredibly useful over the past few years despite many employers having various concerns about its implementation. While these concerns vary, one prevalent one is how remote operations impact cybersecurity.
If you’re utilizing remote operations to any degree and aren’t concerned about cybersecurity, you must adjust this mindset and correct your approach.
Cybersecurity becomes more challenging when the doors are open for remote work, mainly because the threat surface expands with your business’ operational footprint.
Think about it this way: if there’s only one door to a house, you only need to secure that one door. However, the more doors you add, the more doors you must ensure are locked up tight. The more devices you have outside your network reaching in, the more you need to secure… and this is precisely the situation that remote work creates for businesses.
Before we go any further, we must acknowledge just how beneficial remote and hybrid work has proven to be for the businesses that adopt it. That is undeniable. However, security mustn’t be sacrificed in favor of these options.
The hard truth is that remote operations will introduce additional threats to your business. If you plan to implement any degree of them, you must protect your business with the appropriate security measures. Let’s examine what this looks like.
To determine which protections are needed, it helps to understand the dangers that remote work can introduce. These dangers include (but are certainly not limited to):
The fact is that there is so much to cybersecurity—even without the wrinkles that remote operations introduce—that one blog post simply can’t do much more than scratch the surface. That’s why we would love to sit down with you and examine your unique situation to determine where your largest concerns are and how they can be addressed.
Don’t let your attempts to improve your business through initiatives like remote work and similar efforts leave it vulnerable. Reach out to us at 561-795-2000 to start a conversation about how to keep it all secure while still making progress toward your business objectives.