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Maxine Holt , Senior Research Director at Omdia keeping employees engaged and firmly anchored in the company security strategy .”
Awareness training is key to sustaining connections with employees , according to Infosecurity Europe ’ s poll , with 39.2 % of respondents believing awareness training is the best way of mitigating remote working risk . This is followed by web and email security ( 28.1 %), endpoint protection ( 19 %) and identity and access management ( 13.7 %).
“ I would suggest that understanding where your risks are is more important than jumping into ‘ solution mode ’ with endpoint protection , for example ,” said Steve Wright , CISO of Privacy Culture and Former Interim DPO Bank of England . “ Organisations have
Organisations have not carried out a proper assessment about the whole impact of working from home , with respect to data , IT and general operations . not carried out a proper assessment about the whole impact of working from home , with respect to data , IT and general operations .
“ This will differ by business operation , role and function , in addition to people ’ s home circumstances – such as whether they ’ re in a shared flat or their Wi-Fi speed . Once assessed , the necessary policies and procedures should be updated and training and communications carried out to staff . Refresher training delivered via short videos and animation is necessary for the whole workforce .
“ As well as easily accessible awareness training and guidance employees need more automation and dynamic support , with messages that say for example ‘ this looks like it ’ s confidential , go here to protect it ’.”
Maxine Holt , Senior Research Director at Omdia , echoes the importance of addressing the human factor : “ Organisations need data protection , but also to ensure that the remote working environment is as secure as it can be . Remote employees don ’ t have the same ‘ mindset ’ as they would in the office – they walk away from laptops without locking them , set
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