Ensure your Business Continuity Plan Secures your Remote Workforce
In our last Securing Remote Workers Blog, we discussed how organizations in today’s world must adapt to changing business conditions to ensure a secure remote workforce. Another critical element for securing your remote workforce is ensuring your business continuity and disaster recovery plan includes the ability to support your remote workforce with little or no notice. An organization must be capable of sustaining normal operations due to a power outage, illness, flooding, or similar event, which makes it unsafe for employees to travel onsite. In such an event that disrupts normal business operations, an organization must be capable of rapidly transitioning to a fully remote workforce.
If you already have a business continuity plan, you should consider adding remote workforce security capabilities to your plan, such as:
- Multifactor authentication
- Data loss prevention (DLP)
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Wireless connectivity
If you do not have a business continuity plan, the Department of Homeland Security provides details on the following four steps:
- Conduct a business impact analysis to identify time-sensitive or critical business functions and processes and the resources that support them.
- Identify, document, and implement to recover essential business functions and processes.
- Organize a business continuity team and compile a business continuity plan to manage a business disruption.
- Conduct training for the business continuity team and testing and exercises to evaluate recovery strategies and the plan.
For more information you can download a summary guide here.
