So, let’s break it down to build it up: Here are three ways small businesses can effectively secure remote work at scale.
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1. In a Remote Work World, Businesses Must Control User Action
Recent survey data notes that 84 percent of businesses plan to expand work-from-home capacity even as crisis conditions are replaced with “new normal” operations. It makes sense as employees have demonstrated the ability to deliver productivity at a distance, and cloud-based communication tools are now up to the task of delivering reliable collaboration over time and distance.
But organizations are understandably worried about potential security risks. For example, 47 percent pointed to potentially problematic web apps, while 68 percent highlighted concerns around file sharing.
For small businesses, this suggests the need for increased control over user action at a distance. From setting risk-based access policies that provide permission on an as-needed basis to complete visibility into user actions across both internal networks and collaborative tools, accounting for user activity is critical to developing protective policies capable of identifying threats before malicious actors compromise resources.
2. Amid BYOD, Protecting Workers’ Devices Is Crucial
As noted by CSO, staffers are quickly becoming more comfortable with work-from-home environments as their familiarity with new processes, policies and applications improves. But this also creates a critical disconnect: end-user devices.
Staff personal devices are now critical to ensuring continuity of business operations. As a result, even small businesses unsure about the move to mobile must now embrace the device-first framework — but they can’t ignore the accompanying risks.