WFH Cybersecurity Posts

Maintaining small business cybersecurity while allowing BYOL (bring your own laptop) is one of the hottest topics amongst companies that seek out our help. Although there is no one-size-fits-all solution, it helps to have a contextual sense for the continuum of high risk to low risk decisions that a company can make while navigating this complex topic.  Here's our shot at very simply summarizing some of the key stopovers on that continuum that we've seen companies land at.

If there is one thing we've learned about small business cybersecurity it's that there are a great many operators that are afraid to ask tough questions about cybersecurity... because they are worried what the answers might be. We specialize (tactfully, of course) in helping organizations raise and think through those tough questions -- and come out the other end safer and happier. Today we'll take on the issue of Remote Work, asking four of the tough questions that deserve to be asked. And giving you, our reader, a ray of hope that there are reasonable ways to resolve any cybersecurity loose ends made apparent by the question.  Here goes:

Stating the obvious: over the past year, we've come to meet many people who now WFH (work from home). And, many of them rely on Xfinity router security to keep them safe.  It's long overdue that we talk about that in specific terms, about what to expect -- and what not to expect -- if that description matches your situation. Equally important, it might describe many employees in your organization -- probably even employees that handle sensitive company information regularly.

For this particular post, we're going to focus mostly on malicious traffic filtering, although we have much more to say about Xfinity router security and WFH threats in future posts.