"SANS Offers Free Kit to Secure Home Workers"

The SANS Institute is offering a training kit and additional resources aimed at providing knowledge for organizations, parents, and individuals on how to protect themselves against cyber threats when working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Security Awareness Work-from-Home Deployment Kit highlights the top risks to remote employees, such as social engineering, weak passwords, and unpatched systems. Other challenges pointed out by the kit include Wi-Fi security, VPNs, and incident detection. These types of resources are essential because many businesses may not have the procedures, policies, and technologies in place to support secure remote working. This article continues to discuss the key highlights of the SANS Institute's home working kit and other efforts being made by security vendors to help businesses support remote working set-ups.

Infosecurity Magazine reports "SANS Offers Free Kit to Secure Home Workers"