Work From Home: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Strategies for Protecting Your Network


The COVID-19 pandemic has forced significant changes in enterprise work practices, including an increased use of telecommunications technologies required by the new work-from-home policies that most organizations have instituted in response. In this podcast, Phil Groce, a senior network defense analyst in the CERT Division of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, discusses the security implications of this dramatic increase in the number of people in organizations who are working from home, examines the threats and vulnerabilities associated with the increase in remote work, and offers practical solutions to individuals and enterprises for operating securely in this new environment.