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Understand the threats to your
organisation. Business leaders should work
with their security teams to identify likely
attack vectors as a result of more employees
working from home and prioritise the
protection of their most sensitive information
and business-critical applications.
Provide clear guidance and encourage
communication. They must ensure
that homeworking policies are clear and
include easy-to-follow steps that empower
employees to make their homeworking
environment secure. This should include
instructing employees to communicate
with internal security teams about any
suspicious activities.
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INDIVIDUAL
USERS MUST BE
EMPOWERED
TO FOLLOW
THE GUIDANCE
PROVIDED
TO THEM BY
ORGANISATIONS
AND TAKE
PREVENTATIVE
MEASURES.
Provide the right secu
Leaders should ensure a
owned or managed dev
with essential security c
extending the same net
practices that exist with
to all remote environme
capabilities include:
• An ability to securely
their business-critical
premises application
teleconferencing app
relevant for remote w
• Endpoint protection o
mobile devices, includ
with encryption.
• An ability to enforce
authentication (MFA
• An ability to block ex
command-and-contr
real-time, automated
• An ability to filter ma
and perform DNS sin
common phishing at
How individuals can
Individual users must be
to follow the guidance p
them by organisations a
preventative measures.
Maintain good passwo
Employees should use co
and multifactor authenti
and change these passw
Update systems and s
should install updates an
timely manner, including
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