There are a bevy of advantages to working remotely, some of which include saving money on office space, better work-life habits for workers, etc. However, since the pandemic, many businesses have found out that remote work strategies come with a unique challenge if such companies are not prepared, that challenge being protecting their digital infrastructure from cyber hackers. Indeed, due to the fact that remote work strategies trade physical properties for digital ones, it only makes sense that the threat of having one’s office broken into is swapped by the analogous circumstance of having cyber criminals “break” into your digital system. Indeed, many companies who have switched to distance based employment since the pandemic, and have done so underprepared, have felt the consequences.
Therefore, there is only one nagging thing left to do if you’re running a remote work strategy: improve your cybersecurity! In this article, we will look at several actions you can take in this regard:
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- Cyber Security Training
Lay out the law of the land: every employee must attend cybersecurity awareness classes. These classes will train the workforce to notice what shady links look like and when to not click on an infected email. Indeed, these classes will make employees more aware on the importance of not acting carelessly in enabling the floodgates for hackers to waltz right on in.
It is true that employees will tend to feel a lot more comfortable when working from home. However, this comfort can cause them to act a little sloppier when it comes to being aware of security risks. Such security classes will, if anything, teach them to be mindful of various methods that hackers employ in infiltrating digital systems, such as phishing or social engineering scams. It is important to remember that employees are the key to a hacker’s pathway to infiltrating the system, whether they’re aware of this or not.
- Firewalls
It may be somewhat difficult to digitally rewire all the company’s devices within the network. However, this is a crucial step in ultimately guarding against any kind of digital infiltration. It is true that free antivirus and firewall protection software is not always the best or most effective solution to the problem. But, it is important to at least have some protection, rather than nothing at all. Free antivirus software is automatically available to windows 10 users in the form of “Windows Security.” However, if one does possess the resources for a comprehensive protection strategy, the AntivirusSoftwareGuide has released a list of the top 10 software in this regard, with entries being TotalAV, PCprotect, Bitdefender and Avast!
- Passwords
There are a variety of methods one can employ in creating a good culture around passwords. Firstly, any passwords stored should be encrypted so that this highly sensitive data will ever be obtained by anyone other than those in upper management. Secondly, it is important to take length into consideration when crafting a password; the longer the password, the harder it will be to decipher. In this regard, passwords should be at least 8 characters long. However, system passwords should be much longer, around 12 to 50 characters long. Further, employees and the company itself should make a habit of changing passwords within a set time period, optimally around 1 – 2 months. Lastly, and this perhaps is the most important point, is that the company’s workforce should be informed of such procedures.
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- Back up your data properly
Due to the fact that, in a remote work strategy, a business’ workflow will be done entirely online or specifically through the cloud, this dramatically increases the chance for certain human errors, such as the accidently deletion of files. Every document being sent, every conversation between two coworkers, all of this will now be done online. Therefore, what is to stop an employee from talking to their coworker through an unsecure platform, or saving their data on a shady file sharing application?
It is in this regard that is it crucial to make sure that workers are compiling their important documents on an agreed upon and automatically backed up location. This can be done through mandating certain laws that permit the saving of files within certain secured systems, such as OneDrive or SharePoint.
