If you still have employees working from home, chances are they might unknowingly be creating a gap in your company’s security posture, exposing your entire business network to bad-actor vulnerability. Watch this 2-minute tip from our president Garrett Graney to assure everyone’s buckled up for safety when working at home.
Recently, we’ve had the phenomena of work from home with the pandemic. Incredibly convenient. And if your employees took home business owned machines, you kept your security posture in place. However, many businesses said no, we can work from any machine from home. The problem there is every time an employee uses a home machine to connect to your business network, there is a gap in that security posture, and it’s an easy gap for a bad actor to take advantage of.
What are you doing for cyber security?
Here’s what many businesses are doing, and I still hear it every day today. We have a firewall, we have antivirus, and we’re applying patches on a regular basis. That was the security posture most businesses needed ten years ago. Today that covers about 25 percent of what is needed. Let me give you an example. On top of those components, which are a good foundation, you need two-factor authentication. You probably use it today in your banking.
If you go to your banking website and you’re accessing your banking accounts, you have two-factor authentication. You’re using a username and a password, and you are also providing something that you know or something that you are, maybe a fingerprint, maybe face recognition, or maybe a special 30-second code that is given to you. There is no panacea. There is no one security product that provides the protection that you need. But I would say that two-factor authentication will easily add another 20 or 25 percent to your security posture.
If you’re not using it today, please spend some time. Look into it.
It is one of those great benefits to the cyber security that you can provide your business.
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