A post-mortem on corporate America’s response to security challenges posed by the pandemic would likely reveal two unfortunate trends. Too many companies refused to change their security strategies in response to the new remote workforce reality. As a result, they are ill-prepared to deal with the coming wave of new post-pandemic security threats that were conceived due to their obstinance.
The underlying issue is many companies failed to question the potential risk each employee could create in their hastily reformulated work-from-home model. They didn’t evaluate how employee behaviors could change during quarantine, unintentionally or otherwise.