Joanna Burkey (HP)
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Tensions between IT teams and employees working from home threaten the security of organisations, with attempts to increase or update security for remote working regularly rebuffed in the name of business continuity.
HP CISO Joanna Burkey believes security leaders must address these frictions to secure the future of the hybrid workplace. Speaking to CSO, she reflects on her experience with such issues and offers best practices for dealing with them.
IT conflicts create remote working cyber security risks
A new HP report, Rebellions & Rejections, combines data from a global YouGov online survey of 8,443 office workers who shifted to working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a global survey of 1100 IT decision makers.
It revealed that almost all (91 per cent) IT teams have felt pressure to compromise security for business continuity as remote and hybrid working has taken hold, while 76 per cent believe security has taken a back seat during the pandemic. As a result, 83 per cent of IT teams say the increase in home workers has created a “ticking time bomb” for a corporate network breach.
“This new report shows that while cyber attacks have become more sophisticated, the workforce has become less compliant, thus making it harder to defend the business,” Burkey says.
Other findings from the report further bear this out, particularly among younger workers. More than half of remote working 18- to 24-year-olds are more concerned with meeting deadlines than exposing the business to a data breach, with almost a third admitted to trying to bypass corporate security policies to get their work done.
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