Are Your Cybersecurity & Compliance Measures Remote-Ready?

By Frances Dewing, CEO, Rubica Cybersecurity

Even if your customers were compliant at the start of the year, they are probably out of compliance now. With a massive shift to remote work, and staff using insecure home networks and personal devices, your compliance strategy must shift if your business is going to adapt to a post-pandemic world.

Remote workers are now the biggest vulnerability for companies large and small. If you are responsible for advising businesses on compliance and security, you can bring a lot of value to your clients (and prevent losses proactively) by focusing on securing and managing the risks of the remote workforce. And as an MSP, your own team can practice what you preach by reconsidering your own security posture regarding remote employees.

Remote work changed the security perimeter

From a cybersecurity perspective, the biggest consequence of the global shift to remote work is that cybercriminals know that we're all working from home using our insecure home networks with no IT support on-site, resulting in few security controls compared to the office.

Remote workers make a perfect, ripe target. 2020 is already on track to set a new data breach record. If you have data on California or European citizens, it could hit your business with steep GDPR and CCPA fines.