A Hacker's Paradise: Top 6 Threats Facing Remote Workers
Presented by
Lance James, CEO at Unit 221b and Charles Everette, Director of Cybersecurity Advocacy at Deep Instinct
About this talk
During the pandemic, there was a rush to enable workers to work remotely. Keeping organizations functioning was the #1 priority - shortcuts were made, shadow IT was often seen, best practices were ignored, and even basic security hygiene was forgotten.
In this session we will be exploring the top 6 threats facing remote workers and organizations today. After COVID-19 92% of people expect to work from home at least 1 day per week and 80% expected to work at least 3 days from home per week*. Now that remote (and hybrid) work is here to stay, IT security teams are scrambling to implement and enforce proper security controls. This remote workforce has shifted from being a short-term fix to a long-term reality. But where should they start? Where’s the low hanging fruit? What are the biggest risks to an organization?
Deep Instinct, the first and only zero-day data security company built on a deep learning cybersecurity framework, prevents unknown threats in <20 milliseconds, 750X faster than the fastest ransomware can encrypt. Deep Instinct Data Security X (DSX) secures data at-rest or in-motion – across cloud, NAS, applications, and endpoints.…