49% of employees still use their personal computers for work as hybrid landscape intensifies enterprise cyber threat
Half (49%) of U.S. WFH employees say they continue to use their personal laptop or computer as they work remotely, according to Morphisec’s 2021 WFH Employee Cybersecurity Threat Index. The second annual study found enterprise employees remain worryingly reliant on non-hardened personal devices for work activities 16 months after the pandemic forced them to go remote.
The study, which included polling of more than 1,000 U.S. employees forced to work remotely during the pandemic, found that the number of WFH employees who upgraded to hardened company devices increased just 8% since last June. The finding is worrying given the extraordinary increase in cyberattacks targeting distributed organizations through vulnerabilities associated with the crumbling of perimeter-based security.