Cyber security and data protection
With the coronavirus forcing half the world’s workforces to operate from home, the threat of cyber risks and data protection breaches is greater than ever.
‘How does an organisation maintain resilience when everything it designed and built was for a different way of working?’ asks DWF’s global head of data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, Stewart Room. As the world battles a pandemic, organisations around the globe are turning homes into offices and personal devices into office tools. The sudden change in the way businesses operate brings with it added cyber and information security risks, particularly via emails to spread malware, as workers in many organisations access confidential business data remotely.
As a result in-house legal teams are revisiting home working policies and keeping their private practice advisers busy. ‘I’m certainly being asked to give a lot more advice on homeworking policies,’ comments Bristows partner Robert Bond. ‘But the challenge is to strike a fair balance between the needs of the business versus the expectation of privacy in the home environment.’
