Workers from home take virus back to the office, what can you do?

27-11-2020

Update: Covid-19 feature from MMOX Smart

No, not the Corona virus, but a computer virus. IT departments are assisted with faster detection of infected home computers returning to the office. ‘’I can easily detect the wrong computers’’.  

Workers from home returning to office are a risky group for your IT security during and after the Covid period. They alternate between trusted and untrusted networks, and strict business use can be difficult to maintain at a distance. Good end-point protection is and remains important. Unfortunately, we have to face the fact that those are lagging behind. But what if the employee’s computer gets infected at home and brings unintentionally malicious software into your office? MMOX sees this is a reoccurring problem for its customers.

Solutions are available, technically and process-wise, but these are often very laborious and difficult to implement. If you isolate all systems before logging on to the office network, you will have at least one day of labour. Moreover, how are you going to control and monitor all of this? And how do you prevent the user from simply logging on as soon as they arrive at the office? In practice, our customers show that this is a major challenge for IT departments.

It is important for the company to find out quickly which employees have contracted a computer virus. With MMOX Smart, our customers have gained easy and automated means of detecting infected devices.

Customers such as John, IT manager at an international debt collection company with 50 employees, are very happy with this: “This makes facilitating a flexible form of work; partly at the office, partly at home, and even abroad much more manageable for us as an IT department. ‘’MMOX makes it easier for me to detect the wrong computers’’.

We would like to discuss the use of MMOX Smart for your company with your IT department. Feel free to send an email to: [email protected] or call 070-2212710.