IT departments are under incredible pressure to maintain the business productivity for an expanded remote workforce that is exponentially larger than it was just a few weeks ago.

As many IT teams work overtime to enable remote workers, maintaining security practices and compliance may not be top of mind, but threat actors are actively seeking opportunities to benefit from current circumstances.

Although enabling a remote workforce is typically a common practice, some particularly urgent and unique considerations are being thrust upon organizations and their employees during the coronavirus crisis.

Many companies were forced to “go remote” in a very short window of time. Some have been able to provide employees with company-issued computers that are closely managed and locked down, but this is often not the case.