Thousands of employers and millions of employees made a nearly overnight transition to a remote workforce earlier this year. Now, with companies seeing benefits that include greater efficiency, cost savings and better work life balance, many are maintaining remote work for the foreseeable future. A recent study found that 55% of executives expect their organizations will offer remote work opportunities after COVID-19 is no longer a threat.
Any time you make a major change to your infrastructure like the shift to remote work, where large numbers of employee PCs and devices are no longer behind the office firewall, the attack surface for cybercriminals expands and the potential for risk increases. Kroll has helped several organizations recover from attacks that originated from the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in remote work applications like VPNs.
Thousands of employers and millions of employees made a nearly overnight transition to a remote workforce earlier this year. Now, with companies seeing benefits that include greater efficiency, cost savings and better work life balance, many are maintaining remote work for the foreseeable future. A recent study found that 55% of executives expect their organizations will offer remote work opportunities after COVID-19 is no longer a threat.
Any time you make a major change to your infrastructure like the shift to remote work, where large numbers of employee PCs and devices are no longer behind the office firewall, the attack surface for cybercriminals expands and the potential for risk increases. Kroll has helped several organizations recover from attacks that originated from the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in remote work applications like VPNs.
