We're All WFH Too - One Year Later!
Last year brought a lot of change. Companies across the globe had to pivot, ready or not, and many went fully remote just like we did here at Veracode.
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How Has Remote Work Changed After 1 Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
On this one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic declaration from the World Health Organization (WHO), let’s check back in on the remote work stats for the past year.
How to Make Your Zoom Meetings More Secure
During the first months of the last year, Zoom was a little known video conferencing platform with a few million users. However, the spread of Coronavirus across the globe forced businesses and organizations to make changes in their working models. Among them was adopting remote working practices, fostered by several communication and collaboration tools. This is where Zoom's popularity surged, with remote workers using the tool to conduct virtual meetings. However, the explosive popularity of Zoom created several cybersecurity ramifications. The unexpected growth exposed the platform to various security faults, vulnerabilities, and hackers. That said, below are some of the best practices to keep your Zoom meetings secure.
Remote Employees: How to Manage Insider Risks
In 2020, remote work became not just a trend but a must for many companies. Yet ensuring secure telecommuting turned out to be a challenge for cybersecurity teams: Remote employees tend to use insecure tools, work in unprotected environments, and mismanage sensitive data. All of this increases the risk of insider threats. In this article, we take a close look at the challenges remote employees bring and the risks they can pose to your organization.
Extending CyberSecurity Beyond The Office Perimeter
The traditional office has now morphed into a hybrid model where most employees work remotely. The shift to remote work isn't entirely new. Between 2005 and 2018, there was a 173% increase in the US remote workforce. This trend spiked significantly in 2020 when roughly 88% of organizations worldwide encouraged remote work to flatten the COVID-19 spread. Join Dr. How corporate office perimeters continue to evolve in real-time as the world changes Latest threats to organizations in and out of the office in the new year
AppSec Bites Part 3: Has the New Virtual Reality Created Opportunities for AppSec?
Over the past several months, many organizations have had to shift their operations to a fully digital platform. This sudden shift was more challenging for some industries, like government, than other industries, like technology. And aside from having to adapt to fully remote operations, many organizations were also subject to tighter budgets, forcing them to become more efficient.
Industrial Remote Access: Why It's Not Something to Fear
Increased uptime? Check. Better access to outside expertise? Check. Improved first-time-fix rate? Check. These are just some of the benefits of industrial remote access. Yet many customers are reluctant to embrace remote access. Not only that, but incidents such as the breach at the Oldsmar water utility might increase organizations’ reluctance to use remote access.
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5 Tips for Building a Culture of Security Among Remote Employees
In one of our previous posts, we highlighted the importance that making security a part of your organizational culture played in keeping your remote workforce secure during the COVID-19 pandemic. But what does that entail? In this post, we're going to flesh out key steps that security teams and their leadership should take in order to make a strong culture of security a reality within their organizations.
People-centric Security for Remote Workers
In striving to make sure in-office and remote employees’ work is secure, organizations often rely on technology-centric approaches. Although user monitoring tools and other cybersecurity solutions do their jobs, they still can’t affect employee behavior and fully secure remote work. To engage remote employees into cybersecurity, organizations are now shifting to a human-centric approach.
Employee Productivity Solution For Remote Workers
Remote work gives employees the opportunity to avoid lengthy commutes and work more flexible schedules. It also allows employers to reduce overhead costs and hire from a larger pool of applicants since employees no longer need to live locally to qualify. But of course, there are some downsides to remote work as well. There are far more distractions at home, so many remote workers find it difficult to stay focused during work hours.