Remote Working Means a Time for Cyber Reexamination in Legal Departments
The prevalence of remote working could be changing the way that some corporate legal departments and their organizations think about cybersecurity, but that also means reevaluating privacy and data protection risks as well.
June 18, 2020 at 01:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Corporate Counsel
While remote working certainly isn't a novel phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the scale of workers conducting business from home to build sizably, a trend that may not even completely reverse itself once shutdowns have lifted. The implication for corporate legal departments likely won't be a complete cybersecurity overhaul, but instead a very deliberate reexamination of how they are protecting their networks and evaluating data privacy risks.
Ken Jenkins, principal and founder of the cybersecurity solutions provider EmberSec, had previously told Corporate Counsel that one of his clients had begun to focus more on securing the organization's endpoints than the corporate office. But such an undertaking is also not without its complications.
"The threat obviously is that your corporate enterprise still has solutions that need to be secure and while you are in transition and trying to figure that out, your attack surface remains, right?" Jenkins said.
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