When New Hampshire companies look for ways to bring their budgets in line, one area they cannot afford to diminish is cybersecurity. If anything, they often have to increase their ability to safeguard their most important digital infrastructure as well as protect their clients’ data. New Hampshire Business Review reached out to McLane Middleton in Manchester to glean some of their expertise in this arena.
Cameron G. Shilling, Director, Litigation Department & Chair of Cybersecurity and Privacy Group, McLane Middleton P.A., mclane.com
• Q: What are the best practices a company can adopt to keep its remote and hybrid workers secure and connected to the company?
A: One primary risk presented by employees working remotely is the devices they use to do so. With respect to laptops and desktops, the following are critical safeguards: encrypt the hard drives; do not permit workers to have ad ministrator privileges; deploy advanced threat detection and prevention not just ordinary anti-virus; enable local firewalls; and ensure that the devices automatically link to a virtual private network (VPN) as soon as they receive an internet connection. With respect to mobile devices, deploying a mobile device management (MDM) application is critical to ensure that the device can be accessed only using a passcode or biometric; the device and the data in the MDM is encrypted; and the device can be located and decredentialed if lost or stolen.
Another primary risk of employees working remotely is the points of access they have to company information.
Strong and unique passwords coupled with multi-factor authentication (MFA) for access to all computers, networks and clouds is a necessity. Additionally, limiting the access to those systems only to company-owned devices is anothe ..
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