Many of us liked the idea of working from home because that means getting up later and doing your work at your own pace, away from the gossips and distractions you once face at work. But, think again, is working from home really good?
Risk of data loss
For centuries, organizations regardless of nations learned that intelligence is crucial and important in the competitive environment. As the digital space gets heavier with content, more data are available for harvesting to gain insights. In the past 20 odd years, countries started enacting on data protection regulations, some worked on cross border data exchange, some decides to tag data to a nationality. There are simply many ways to prevent data being abused. However, none would consider data usage during a pandemic situation like COVID19.
Working from home means either you brought home your corporate laptop or you start to work off your personal computer.
Working from home using your personal computer
In the enterprise environment, network is usually monitored and secured with multiple devices. IPS, IDS, firewall, network access control appliances and so forth, are just a few that ensure your network is secured. However, working from home means, you have an internet router/modem that either connects you to a wireless or wired network. That is really a concern because your device that connects you to the internet could be obsolete to protect you from the latest security threat or a remote access attack. Your wireless network could be setup with a weak security control such as WEP or MAC filtering. Your router might also be running an old firmware with a bunch of remote access vulnerability waiting to be exploited. Next, the anti virus software on your personal computer could be obsoleted too, then the operating system might be running on Windows XP. The list of danger goes on.
Hence, there should be an easy checklist to assess if it is security feasible to allow one to work from home especially in the event of a data entry operator having the access to all customers' information.
Risk of data loss
For centuries, organizations regardless of nations learned that intelligence is crucial and important in the competitive environment. As the digital space gets heavier with content, more data are available for harvesting to gain insights. In the past 20 odd years, countries started enacting on data protection regulations, some worked on cross border data exchange, some decides to tag data to a nationality. There are simply many ways to prevent data being abused. However, none would consider data usage during a pandemic situation like COVID19.
Working from home means either you brought home your corporate laptop or you start to work off your personal computer.
Working from home using your personal computer
In the enterprise environment, network is usually monitored and secured with multiple devices. IPS, IDS, firewall, network access control appliances and so forth, are just a few that ensure your network is secured. However, working from home means, you have an internet router/modem that either connects you to a wireless or wired network. That is really a concern because your device that connects you to the internet could be obsolete to protect you from the latest security threat or a remote access attack. Your wireless network could be setup with a weak security control such as WEP or MAC filtering. Your router might also be running an old firmware with a bunch of remote access vulnerability waiting to be exploited. Next, the anti virus software on your personal computer could be obsoleted too, then the operating system might be running on Windows XP. The list of danger goes on.
Hence, there should be an easy checklist to assess if it is security feasible to allow one to work from home especially in the event of a data entry operator having the access to all customers' information.
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