By Anthony Berrios
Blog Post #20
BitSight recently conducted research on home office networks compared to corporate office networks and compared there percentages of malware infected. The result? Not good.
They recently released a report on their findings titled “Identifying Unique Risks of Work From Home Remote Office Networks,” that determined that 45% of companies had malware on their corporate-associated home networks, whereas only 13.3% of companies had malware on their corporate networks. Although this may not be surprising, the vast difference is. Nearly 50% of home networks are infected. This is a staggering number. As for scope the study looked at over 40,000 organizations and studied WFH-RO or the “work from home-remote office.” BitSight created a data map of all the WFH-RO IP addresses within each organization to compare.
They came to the conclusion that WFH-RO’s were 3.5 times more likely to be infected with malware than corporate networks.
This is very relevant now as many companies are having their employees work from home and access their companies network remotely. All it takes is one infected employee computer to corrupt a whole network. During this corona virus pandemic it is more important than ever to vigorously check for malware on on both corporate networks and home networks and their associated computers.
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