5 Data Privacy Risks in Remote Work and How to Control Them

Remote work equally brings opportunities and challenges. Organizations operating with distributed teams experience the limitation of knowing how remote teams work and what compliance they follow.

Let’s understand why organizations in data-critical industries including Banking, Finance Services, and Insurance are more concerned about workplace compliance and data privacy, working with remote teams.                 

1. Growing Data Breaches

Organizations struggle to stay in sync with distributed employees in data-sensitive roles. The unmonitored environment of flexible work can encourage them to cause violations, including data breaches.

Solution

Leverage AI-powered automated detections to predict risky actions and prevent potential threats to data privacy. 

2. Workplace Non-Compliance

Unruly employee behavior in remote workplaces can cause a threat to workplace compliance and cost organizations loss of reputation and revenue.

Solution

Implement and monitor the Clean Desk Policy in distributed work to ensure no use of writing or recording instruments in the workplace to avoid screen grabbing or capturing.  

3. Insider Threats

Businesses with data-intensive operations face the most threats from within in the form of malicious insiders causing greater damage to business data and client trust. 

Solution

Get help with AI-driven behavioral analytics to measure and manage employee actions in distributed work and control them if they deviate from defined regulatory compliance.    

4. Negligence

Employees not aware of regulatory and organizational policies commit compliance mistakes. Even negligent employee behavior can cause unrecoverable data loss to organizations.    

Solution

Stay alert about how employees act and what their actions indicate risks to stop the threat before it causes harm. Also, provide the needed training and support to align their behavior with regulatory compliance, including HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and more.       

5. Less regulated environment

Employees working in home offices, cafes, or other remote locations cause the risk of data exposure to unauthorized persons in the background.

Solution

Monitor and detect the presence of multiple persons in remote employee workplaces with MVD (multiple voice detection) which helps strengthen security and avoids employee privacy breaches.          

How wAnywhere employee monitoring software can help

Trusted by leading BFSI industries, wAnywhere provides AI-enabled security and compliance to help data-intensive businesses strengthen their security posture.

Behavioral Analytics

Detect and control suspicious employee behavior to counter the potential threat to data privacy and workplace compliance.

Threat Prediction and Prevention

Identify risky insiders before they cause harm and align their actions with industry regulations to safeguard business operations.  

Security and Compliance

Integrate AI-powered security measures to critical business operations and trigger automated actions against violations to ensure workplace security and regulation.    

Keeping a tab on how your remote teams work and what their actions indicate risk is key in aligning workplace security and compliance. Start a free trial today to know the potential of wAnywhere AI security in securing your data and critical business operations.