Has Working From Home Created Cybersecurity Problems?

Description

The pandemic forced organisations to embrace the largest remote workforce in history and this upheaval has brought an increasing number of cyber vulnerabilities to the fore. While safe in an organisational setting when it comes to cybersecurity, working from home employees tend to develop security amnesia. This means they often abandon routine security practices, such as establishing authentication procedures, or forwarding suspicious emails, links or attachments to their IT department. They also forget to report phone calls from social engineers, designed to extract valuable information under the guise of pretending to be clients, customers, or employees from other offices. While employees might initially plan to report such occurrences, they often do not, continuing instead to absentmindedly open links and attachments, and engage in these phone calls without asking for proper verification. Unfortunately, it is the well-intentioned yet careless worker, vendor, consultant, or other stakeholder that represents as much of a danger to an organisation's cybersecurity as faceless people on the outside.