Maintaining controls monitoring in uncertain times
June 15, 2020
The key to effective control monitoring right now is reprioritisation – there are not really any new controls that have suddenly become important, but the relative focus of these activities is likely to be different.
We have seen a fundamental change in workforce demographics, with millions of employees now working from home as “shelter in place” and “social distancing” orders become the norm across the globe. Like most parts of the business, security teams had little to no warning about this step-change, so being able to support this “new normal” as well as dealing with the evolving threat landscape is a huge challenge. Now more than ever they need to walk a very fine line in order to balance the business’s needs to stay afloat in challenging financial circumstances, whilst also being able to withstand both “typical” and emerging threats.
You can read the full article by SC Magazine UK here.
