There’s little, if any, precedent for the time we’re experiencing right now with a pandemic changing the corporate landscape in profound ways. But while many are reacting in real-time to the workforce transitioning into the work-from-home-force, in many ways, cybersecurity experts were already developing potential responses despite not knowing the specific circumstances behind this unprecedented global crisis.
A CISO’s priority is to preemptively consider how a cyberattack could happen. And in that way, a new reality in which everyone is working from home isn’t all that different from other imagined scenarios. Obviously, the scope of it is much larger than any of us have had to deal with prior, but to an extent, our ideal is a focus on being prepared even if 40% of your workforce is working from home or if 100% of it is.
This is not to say, however, that while it is the cybersecurity officer’s objective to anticipate cyberthreats in most scenarios, there aren’t still some extra considerations we should be taking in a time in which the security demands are so widespread and disparate. And moreover, not every CISO is empowered to respond to the demands of this time, which isn’t a reflection of that CISO’s capabilities. The entire corporate landscape was caught by surprise in the speed at which the work-from-home transition happened and capabilities haven’t been relegated quickly enough.
When you have a workforce spread out as they are now, there are some new risks to consider. First, you have to set everyone up with equal, or similar, capabilities as if they had been sitting in their designated corporate environment. And that’s a lot of work, especially for job functions that you never imagined might need to perform their role r ..
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