3 Vulnerabilities to Plug to Secure Your Customers’ Remote Workforce
what threats are lurking out there that workers should be aware of.
Phishing is an obvious place to begin. Staff must be overly cautious when it comes to opening suspicious emails, clicking links and filling out forms on unscrupulous web sites.
While this is somewhat well-socialized in an office environment, remote work blurs the lines between personal and business usage of devices. It’s more likely than ever that the same computer or smartphone an employee uses to log into a corporate application is also used for perusing Instagram and TikTok, playing games or purchasing goods from e-commerce merchants.
This increase in the amount of usage and the variety of sites and apps being utilized on each endpoint creates exponentially more opportunities for someone to fall prey to a spoofed form or fake email from an otherwise trusted site. Now, not only is the remote worker’s personal information in jeopardy, but that threat can easily spread to corporate IT assets as well.
Ransomware is another prevalent threat that’s compounded in a remote work setting. Workers are far less likely to try and install things on locked-down devices only used for business purposes. But hybrid usage and unsecure network connections open the door for malware to slip through the cracks.
Keeping those bad actors from gaining a foothold to steal data is critical, particularly because suspect network activity is more difficult to detect when connections are coming into the network at all hours from hundreds or thousands of locations. MSPs can help themselves and their clients by offering robust employee training that can minimize exposure to these threats.
Streamline Sustainably with Automation
MSPs inevitably have more on their plates than ever, thanks to the challenges noted earlier and others posed by remote workforces and evolving cyberthreats, and there may not be an immediate opportunity to offset the additional resources required with a boost in revenue. To keep the books in the black and not burnout already overworked staff, MSPs must invest in tools that simplify and automate frequent and repetitive tasks.
Remote workers are the present and the future. MSPs and their clients can no longer ignore the additional security challenges that come with this, but with the right game plan and purpose-built tools, IT environments can still be protected from the most common threats corporations face.
Matt Solomon is Vice President, Business Development, Kaseya.
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