Is your Organization one among the 85 percent of businesses which have planned to expand their work from home policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic?

If so, you must be aware that Remote working poses new cybersecurity challenges for organizations. Businesses have to ramp up their Security measures at a device level. This means employing the latest technology to assist in monitoring devices, updating DR/BC plans, and preparing users for unpredicted changes in their work environment.

Give the First Priority to Device Security

The established model for a standard office setting is perimeter-based security. IT teams have built security infrastructures particularly to protect enterprise networks and their information.

Starting in March 2020, many organizations continued to depend on VPNs while their employees worked at home on enterprise networks. This is kind of like a Band-Aid solution that will not be operationally or financially sustainable in the future.

Since IT teams cannot control the Wi-Fi networks that people connect to in public or at home, they have to create security infrastructures which support each device so that employees will be able to work safely using any network. This will help companies make moves like shifting their data to the cloud, so that their employees can easily access the data they need, from any location. All these are not possible without the appropriate technology.

Using Mobile Device Management Solutions

It is the recommendation of state regulators to use an MDM solution, since mobile device management is a proven method for the management of individual devices on an enterprise scale.

An MDM (Mobile Device Management) helps your IT team monitor their devices remotely and make sure they are equipped with the needed security measures and software. With the great visibility that an MDM solution offers, Information Technology teams will be able to keep inventory of work-related Apple devices and active security measures like:

• Malware software updates.
• Installing critical software patches.
• Multi-factor authentication, which is an addition to the basic password protection method

Update your Emergency Plans

If this current pandemic has caught your organization without a plan for the ways of supporting your remote workforce.

A particular survey found out that about a third of companies were not prepared for working from home during the beginning of the pandemic. As organizations look towards the future, IT leaders have to update their emergency strategies for addressing emerging risks and users’ needs.

So, you must renew your organization’s commitment to making individual devices secure and offering guidelines for long-term remote working. For organizations using many Apple devices for those processes, it is likely that their plans would include information about the role that mobile device management software plays in supporting device security.

As an organization establishes new protocols, they have to be recorded and communicated to the IT team and to users. In case their staff is displaced because of extremities in weather, a pandemic, or a personal emergency, it is important that they have an effective plan to work remotely in such situations. They also have to remember that with proper documentation, it would be easy for them to communicate with their remote workforce.

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