Category: Technology

Microsoft takes the security of their platform very seriously, but that doesn't protect you from your own people, who are often performing high-risk actions within these applications on a regular basis, regardless of whether their actions are accidental or malicious.
Even in ordinary times, overseeing a remote workforce can be a challenge for multiple reasons - ensuring availability of all necessary tools, managing remote endpoints and having a fail-safe contingency plan. However, the current global health crisis has made things that much more complicated. In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has drastically changed life as we know it, forcing us to change the way we live and work. Your business is no exception to this change as you transition to survive with a primarily (or fully) remote workforce.
Many business owners - and the IT professionals they rely on - focus on protecting their companies from external threats - the lone hacker out for a large ransom, the industry competitor pilfering secrets, or organized cyber-criminals with sophisticate phishing schemes, etc. But what about internal threats?
Over the last few years, we have seen many companies offer full time or part time remote work options for their employees. Most of these companies spent months preparing for the switch by training their employees, setting up remote work policies and ensuring the necessary infrastructure was in place to deal with cybersecurity threats.