70% of Orgs Facing New Security Challenges Due to #COVID19 Pandemic
The firm’s report,
Some 88% of the 500 UK and US IT decision makers surveyed stated that, before the pandemic hit, they felt some level of confidence in their ability to fully and securely support remote work. However, when social distancing restrictions forced many offices to close and quickly instigate mass remote working, only 39% organizations found it easy to actually shift employees.
Highlighting the security challenges that have arisen as a result, those polled cited upticks in risky behavior from remote working employees including the storing of sensitive data (41%), clicking on phishing emails (38%) and inappropriate admin access (37%). What’s more, 30% said they had observed their end users failing to update software.