The Security Impact of Rapidly
Enabling Remote Workers
Like many organisations today, you may be facing immediate requirements to change over your workforce from on-site to remote or mobile. This is an opportunity to enable new capabilities for employees while continuing to deliver on commitments to clients and the business’ financials.
A practical guide for organisations
As security professionals often say, the worst time to figure out how to do something is when you absolutely have to do it now. When properly planned and prepared for, rolling out the changes needed to support a mobile workforce can be tricky. When rolled out without proper notice and preparation, there are areas where outside assistance can make the difference between success and failure. Working with an organisation that has the technology and staffing capabilities along with the experience that it takes to align the people, processes, and technologies required to rapidly deploy and enable remote workers is a definite way to mitigate risk when getting things right the first time is truly the only option.
Critical considerations
Regardless of the reason, enabling a remote workforce is more than simply giving users remote access to the corporate network, and it involves much more than that from a security perspective.
Identity & access management
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Ensure collaboration is easy?
Collaboration & information sharing
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Use these considerations as a basis for discussion with all stakeholders in planning for key changes and addressing your overall security program.
When confronted with unplanned needs, it’s best not to wing it. Work with professionals who have a proven track record and can support you in addressing immediate needs while enabling current security initiatives and aligning solutions with corporate security governance and compliance requirements.
Insight’s security practice is comprised of business consultants and security experts who can help your organisation face new and emerging challenges, from strategy through implementation and management.
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Determine if a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy is needed?
Hardware & software
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Effectively manage network capacity?
Network
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How does enabling remote workers deviate from defined standards?
Security standards & compliance
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How do we communicate when traditional tools are overloaded or inaccessible?
Communications & policies
Remotely create accounts and administer
passwords?
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Handle user provisioning?
Configure and enable remote access at
the endpoint?
Monitor remote workers and ensure
visibility of network activities?
Audit new capabilities?
Make file access and sharing both simple and secure?
Appropriately classify new data?
Securely store new data?
Create or refine a secure BYOD policy?
Provide new hardware to employees?
Manage secure updates?
Ensure the right hardware is in place?
Best facilitate remote access with
enhanced security?
Do new standards need to be defined?
Have the changes we’ve made in this crisis made an impact to our ability to prove compliance?
Do we need to perform an audit?
What are the alternatives to Webex, Teams, Skype, etc.?
Is remotely working from home covered in the acceptable use policy?
Have employees been made aware of any new policies?
