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Work from Home - Information Security Threats and Best Practices

Carlsten, Frida LU ; Hultman, Erika LU and Nilsson, Douglas Erol LU (2021) INFM10 20211
Department of Informatics
Abstract
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic a majority of the workforce were compelled to start working from home. In conjunction with this sudden shift, threats concerning information security have reportedly increased, which organisations may not have been prepared for. To address these threats, there are a variety of organisational and technological best practices that can prove to be important. Hence, this thesis aims to explore what information security best practices are important for large organisations in a work from home (WFH) context with respect to the identified threats. Through a qualitative approach, several CISOs and security experts were interviewed and participated in an interactive exercise. Contrary to the suggestions from... (More)
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic a majority of the workforce were compelled to start working from home. In conjunction with this sudden shift, threats concerning information security have reportedly increased, which organisations may not have been prepared for. To address these threats, there are a variety of organisational and technological best practices that can prove to be important. Hence, this thesis aims to explore what information security best practices are important for large organisations in a work from home (WFH) context with respect to the identified threats. Through a qualitative approach, several CISOs and security experts were interviewed and participated in an interactive exercise. Contrary to the suggestions from the literature, the findings of this thesis indicate that the organisations that were investigated were prepared for their employees to start working from home full time as they already had a robust infrastructure in place. Conclusively, this thesis found that IST, ISA, IAM, Network, ZTM and Information Classification were important best practices against the threats that have increased when employees are working from home (Less)
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author
Carlsten, Frida LU ; Hultman, Erika LU and Nilsson, Douglas Erol LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A qualitative study in the era of COVID-19
course
INFM10 20211
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Information Security, Work from Home, WFH, Best Practices, Security Threats
report number
INF21-053
language
English
id
9053892
date added to LUP
2021-06-21 12:18:50
date last changed
2021-06-22 10:23:27
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  abstract     = {{With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic a majority of the workforce were compelled to start working from home. In conjunction with this sudden shift, threats concerning information security have reportedly increased, which organisations may not have been prepared for. To address these threats, there are a variety of organisational and technological best practices that can prove to be important. Hence, this thesis aims to explore what information security best practices are important for large organisations in a work from home (WFH) context with respect to the identified threats. Through a qualitative approach, several CISOs and security experts were interviewed and participated in an interactive exercise. Contrary to the suggestions from the literature, the findings of this thesis indicate that the organisations that were investigated were prepared for their employees to start working from home full time as they already had a robust infrastructure in place. Conclusively, this thesis found that IST, ISA, IAM, Network, ZTM and Information Classification were important best practices against the threats that have increased when employees are working from home}},
  author       = {{Carlsten, Frida and Hultman, Erika and Nilsson, Douglas Erol}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Work from Home - Information Security Threats and Best Practices}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}