How Avast and other companies get the basics right when making the shift to secure remote work
I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Women in Business event, which was held virtually this year. I spoke about the experience of quickly and securely moving Avast -- a global company with nearly 2,000 employees based in countries around the world -- to a fully remote working environment.
I’ve been a Chief Information Security Officer for over a decade, but this transition presented a challenge like no other I’d faced before. I wanted to share what I learned with others doing the same thing at their organizations. The women attending my talk had a wide variety of technical and non-technical backgrounds but they all agreed that Covid is transforming us all. And that the pandemic will have a long term effect on the online world.
How Avast transitioned to fully remote working
During my presentation, I outlined the approach we took and shared which of our moves were most successful. When the pandemic started, we immediately closed our offices and moved to quickly supply all of our workers who needed it with equipment for working from home. We rolled out internal training courses on remote management and provided one-to-one mentoring and mental health support sessions with a business coach.
Each week, a team of volunteer coronavirus “coordinators” at our offices worldwide held a meeting to check in on local restrictions and supply an update on how our employees were feeling. We provided dedicated parental support options for families struggling to balance the sudden new load of extra responsibilities of working full time from home, juggling c ..
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