As the world is starting to move out of lockdown, businesses are moving some of their workforce back into the office environment. Whilst their focus may be on the logistics of this and making the office environment ‘Covid-Safe’ for their employees, they also need to be cognisant of the potential security challenges facing them. Some areas that businesses should start to focus on are:
Currency of critical security patches
Any relaxation of endpoint administrative rights
Identification of unauthorised network scans
The problem
During the pandemic, most corporate assets (laptops) have in effect been residing on home office networks, those being home or public Wi-Fi, with only their EDR solution and VPN protecting them from attack. For the last 18 months or so, these assets have been sharing their local network with potentially un-patched devices, being operated by individuals who may have been more concerned with the latency of MineCraft…
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Posted by: James Prince |
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July 12, 2021 at 09:10PM
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