What every business needs if it wants to continue remote working

Continuing with working remotely has been the best way forward for many businesses. It can make things cheaper as well as more efficient, and employees are less likely to be late due to traffic or any transport problems. It also means that employees get more rest time, are safer from anything like a cold or stomach bug that is ‘going round the office’, and also have access to food and water without it disrupting the office with strong smells or people constantly getting up from their desks. So, with all of these positives, if you want to continue working remotely, there will be some things you’ll need to do.

#1 Invest in CSPM

You might not fully understand what it is, but what you will need to be aware of is that CSPM is something that can help your business dramatically, especially if you are working on a public cloud network. In a nutshell, CSPM, otherwise known as Cloud Security Posture Management, can help you use your business’s public cloud to its absolute maximum potential. 

This can be something that you find very useful, especially if your public cloud is large and you have a lot of settings and different filters. As this is probably something you should not be managing yourself, you are going to need help with the security management of your public cloud by using professional services such as Sonrai Security CSPM. Doing this can help make your business public cloud one that is easy to use and well managed, as well as secure and safe for users. 

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#2 Find the right communication software 

As you may have already discovered through bitter experience, there is no point in working remotely if you are going to waste your time, money, and energy on software that isn’t helping your business. Finding the right software and experimenting with different kinds, such as SaaS (Software as a Service) can be a long and arduous task, but by finding the right one, you will help your business to communicate far more effectively. This helps you to improve a huge variety of different things, such as:

• Employee confidence and morale, which can make training more effective and workers more enthusiastic about their jobs, therefore increasing employee loyalty,
• It can boost production and progress speed by cutting out needless mistakes made through miscommunication 
• It will help struggling employees get the help that they need and will help them make the most of the resources that they have at work, such as HR (Human Resources) and other ways to help them feel safe and well-supported. 

#3 Remember end-user training

End-user training is important if you are a small to medium-sized company, and essential if you are any larger than that. Every single member of your business needs to do this to help keep your business safe from harm from the inside out.

It is all well and good having the best external protection, but if someone on the inside opens the front door, you might as well not have any security there in the first place. You need to make sure that your staff is aware of phishing attacks, social engineering attacks, identity fraudulence, and spoofing (where users look legitimate on the surface, but the email is a clear fake, or it looks very suspicious). They need to be able to tell a friend from foe, and although it isn’t easy, with the right training and professional help, you might find that you are far better protected from a cyber-attack than you might have first thought, because your staff know their stuff and can spot when something looks suspicious. 

#4 MFA

If your employees are dotted all over the place and working from anywhere on the planet, you might find that MFA is even more important that it might be to others. In short, MFA, otherwise known as Multi-Factor Authentication, is a process of logging in which requires the employee to prove their identification. 

This could be through a text or a call on their phones which holds a code to be able to get into their computer after they enter their passwords correctly, or it might require a fingerprint or from an associated app. This is a more secure way of making sure that if a work laptop goes missing, the criminal can’t get in and access the data, because Multi-Factor Authentication works with the individual employee. 

It works with something that they know, most typically their username and their password, and something that they must have that they cannot remember. This can be a fingerprint, as mentioned before, or it can be something like a key code, a scannable item, or a one-time authorization such as a code via an app or automated message. Some businesses only have two-step authentication, others have three or even four-step authentication, just to get into the machine that they need to use for work. This can be incredibly useful for your business and can even keep stolen goods secure, which is something that you may need in this day and age. 

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#5 Sign-in and Sign-off periods

Signing in and signing out is something that should be a key part of the day. When you have people working from home, you have the luxury of your employees having no legitimate reason for being late, unless they have something going on at home which you should be aware of. 

So, unlike the office, it makes holding a short teams call five or ten minutes after everyone should have signed on their shift easy, and you’ll know who is sitting at their work computer and ready to work, instead of still pottering around their kitchen in their pajamas with their work computer just logged in in the other room. 

Having a sign-off meeting fifteen minutes toward the end of the day helps people know that it is time to start winding up so they can start again tomorrow, and not working late into to the evening and risking burnout.