teissTalk: Rethinking your approach to insider risk

teissTalk host Jenny Radcliffe was joined by Nick Harris, Director of InfoSec and Cyber Resilience, Oxford Nanopore Technologies; and Brian Reed, Cybersecurity Evangelist, ProofPoint.

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HP’s Out of Sight and Out of Mind report found that 45% of those surveyed had bought IT equipment to support home working over the past year with 68% of them saying that security wasn’t as big a consideration as other factors such as price or functionality when purchasing. About half reported that the laptops and printers they bought weren’t checked or installed by the company’s IT.

With productivity overriding all other aspects and shadow IT having become an accepted, albeit grey area of procurement, employees often grab unsanctioned and unapproved software and thus open up the organisation for attacks. But as we’re coming to grips with the pandemic and people are increasingly going back to the office, this tendency to circumvent procurement procedures alongside with some other bad habits employees developed while working from home (e.g., leaving their laptops open) need to be put an end to.