Since working from home has become the new normal for many employers, new challenges for security administrators are growing. With childcare facilities and schools being closed, many employees are having to juggle not only their duties at work, but also childcare, pets, and dealing with deliveries or unexpected visitors. Under those conditions, mistakes can happen, such as sending an email with private corporate data to the wrong address. This is just one of the many insider security risks that administrators have had to adapt to. Joseph Carson, CIO at Thycotic, stated, “ The [work from home] trend due to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased insider threats from employees taking risks with company assets, such as stealing sensitive data for personal use or gain as employers have less visibility to what employees are doing or accessing.” One of the primary threats with the working at home posture is from “negligent insiders” or employees who are well-intentioned, but who may mistakenly give away company data or put company data at risk, by accidentally opening a phishing email, becoming a victim of a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam or leaving cloud storage misconfigured.
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