Woburn, MA – June 4, 2020 — /BackupReview.info/ — Kaspersky recently conducted a survey to highlight the importance of security protection and awareness for smaller enterprises. The research found that, although small businesses are less inclined to provide their staff with company devices to work from home, only one third of employees (34%) have received instructions on how to securely work on personal laptops, tablets and smartphones.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, working from personal devices has become a necessity for some small businesses. As a result, organizations have been tasked with protecting personal devices from cyber risks so that sensitive business and customer data stored on them remains safe, and employees can work without downtime should their device become a target of ransomware or other malware infections.
During the pandemic, the survey found that three-in-five employees of small organizations (57%) were not provided with corporate devices from their employers, compared to an average of 45% of staff working in all companies. Additionally, only one third of small business staff (34%) indicated they were given any IT security requirements to work securely on personal devices.
These requirements could include having an anti-malware solution installed by a user or provided by an organization, using strong and unique passwords on devices and WiFi routers, and regularly updating device operating systems in order to reduce risks from unpatched vulnerabilities.
Having such instructions in place has become even more necessary in the current global climate, given that 35% of small business employees admitted they have begun to store more valuable corporate information on their home devices, as well as in personal cloud storage services (25%).
“Small companies may be in difficult circumstances and their first priority is to save their business and employees during the lockdown, so it is no surprise that cybersecurity may become an afterthought,” said Andrey Dankevich, senior product marketing manager for B2B Product Marketing at Kaspersky. “However, implementing even basic IT security requirements can decrease the chances of malware infection, compromised payments or lost business data. Moreover, there are plenty of recommendations already given by cybersecurity experts that businesses can share with their employees to help them keep their devices safe. And of course, the requirements should be followed not only during home isolation but continued when staff work remotely in the future.”
Kaspersky advises small companies to follow these IT security requirements to protect their employees while working from personal devices:
More information about Kaspersky Small Office Security can be found on the product page — https://www.kaspersky.ca/small-office-security
For additional findings from the report, please visit “How COVID-19 changed the way people work”– https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/report-covid-wfh/35244/
About Kaspersky
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