FREE “Working remotely” online security course

To assist organisations to address the potential risk of staff working from home, Layer 8 Security are offering a FREE “Working remotely” online security course to anyone who wants it.

It is provided as either a SCORM format for companies to run for their staff on their own LMS or we can provide the course on our LMS for those that don’t have one.

Working Remotely

With the imminent declaration of a pandemic, many companies are suggesting that their staff work from home, hoping to reduce the risk that domestic and international travel may pose.

Interestingly enough, many people have advocated for this style of working for quite some time now, to increase the telecommuting mentality and facilitate staff to work from home. To be honest, with modern teleconferencing facilities, cloud storage, mobile devices and high-speed internet, it is an obvious way to improve the lives of staff, reduce the road traffic, reduce the parking headaches and create a happier workforce.

Unfortunately, this also presents organisations with security risks that may not have been perceived as a major concern, previously.

Risks could include:

Whilst working remotely or from home, if you want an application for something it is easy to get it from the internet. You often don’t even need to pay for it, as you can probably find a free or trial version.

If you need to quickly create and store some data, it is very easily to use the local drive, USB storage or even personal cloud storage. Staff, even though they are well meaning, may cause security incidents, without the organisation being aware of them or having any control over them, hence the name “Shadow IT”.

Even if you think your organisation has the most secure data loss prevention and device management protocols known to man, it is still easy for any person to just create confidential information somewhere else, store it locally or on the internet, outside of that circle of trusted technology.

30% of cybersecurity breaches are expected to be due to Shadow IT this year, 2020.

All organisations have information of value. Whenever a valuable information asset is placed into a technology that has not been vetted or approved, there is a risk. It might seem harmless, but it could just cause some major damage.

What Can Be Done?

Education and awareness for all employees goes a long way.

Layer 8 Security can help discover and monitor what information and services your organisations staff are actually using whilst working remotely.

To assist organisations to address the potential risk of staff working from home, Layer 8 Security are offering a FREE “Working remotely” online security course to anyone who wants it.

It is provided as either a SCORM format for companies to run for their staff on their own LMS or we can provide the course on our LMS for those that don’t have one.

This is aimed to assist companies and their staff to stay secure, even when required to work from home.

Topics

·      Correct security behaviour for remote working

·      Virtual Private Networks

·      Data storage guidelines

·      Patching

·      Passwords

·      Communications

·      Applications security (don’t download unsanctioned applications)

·      Physical security for devices

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