Cybersecurity Risks in Remote Working Environment and Strategies to Mitigate Them

Abstract

Remote work is popular these days around the world although remote work provides flexible routine and work life balance, remote work also comes with huge cyber security threats. This paper analyzes the types of cybersecurity threats such as unsafe Wi-Fi networks, weak passwords, unencrypted file sharing, phishing schemes,cyber-attacks. This paper also discusses the ways of mitigating these risks such as formulating a work-from-home security policy, investing in zero trust model,multi-factor authentication,VPN,firewall and strong Endpoint Detection and Response(EDR).