Small and medium-sized companies SMEs have often implemented only minimal IT security concepts for their employees working from home. Teleworking has become a necessity due to COVID- but employees want to continue working from home even after the crisis. In a recent Capterra study of remote employees say they like working from home. Companies had to react quickly to the new circumstances and didnt have time to work on IT security concepts. However now is the time to prepare your business for the new reality. Because cybercriminals are currently using the crisis and the low security conditions of the remote workforce for their attacks.
Many cyber attacks can be prevented or at least significantly reduced with relatively simple means explains Lev Lexow lawyer certified data protection officer TÜV and managing director at Prive.eu . In this article we want to take a closer look at which means these are exactly. To answer this question we interviewed three security Specific Database experts from different fields. IT security concepts in the home office Increasing digitization creates more space for attackers In addition to increasing remote work the crisis has also driven digitization in companies.
In addition to increased software investment and cloud adoption a whopping of all small and medium-sized businesses have either fully or partially adapted their business proposition to now be virtual. As with everything there is a downside here too With increasing digitization companies become more dependent on IT and the consequences of an IT failure also become more serious Prof. Dr. Rainer W. Gerling data protection and IT security expert and deputy chairman of the Society for Data Protection and Data Security eV GDD with. SMBs are a popular target for cyber attacks According to the results of a study by the TÜV Association from a good one in eight companies in Germany had an IT security incident in the past year before the survey.