Over three quarters of businesses have regular remote users among their workforce, yet only 27 per cent implement the proper security procedures.
According to a recent survey, 77 per cent of businesses have a quarter of staff who regularly work remotely, but only nine per cent use hard disk encryption for removable storage devices.
Due to this statistic, the majority of corporations are left dangerously exposed to the risk of a serious data breaches.
However, the survey also shows that organisations recognise the need to address the issue, particularly with a growing amount of remote workers.
The survey revealed approximately 47 per cent of respondents plan to purchase a remote working security solution in the next year with disk encryption (24 per cent), network access control (22 per cent) and media encryption (13 per cent) being the most popular applications.
Security has always been a reason for organisations not to implement remote working policies; however, with the rise of solutions to combat this problem, it seems that organisations will start to focus on the obvious benefits that remote working offers.
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As featured in SC Magazine.