Why you should make cyber risk a business gain, not a loss - Help Net Security

Why you should make cyber risk a business gain, not a loss - Help Net Security

As companies continue to respond to the global pandemic, millions of their employees are working remotely, often from home. While this is the recommended response, it’s also creating new cyber risks.



More specifically, organizations face four daunting challenges today that significantly increase their risk exposure:


Distributed workforce: Organizations have created a distributed workforce on an unprecedented scale. But many of these devices are not up to date with the latest patches and hence poses a big risk to the organization.
Shortage of security staff: IT teams rushed to get the relevant hardware and software to the employees. This placed a huge stress on already-taxed IT teams to support everything from expanded remote work to fundamentally new operating models.
Rapid migration to the cloud: To ease some of the stress, organizations are should cyber business security