Information and rules of conduct for data security in the home office
During the Corona epidemic, the number of home offices skyrocketed. Many employees were forced to work from home from one day to the next. While this was initially provisional in many cases, most workstations at home have now been transformed into a real home office. The home offices are usually completely furnished and the processes are well established. Now we still need to work on a few details. One point is the security of company data in the home environment. Winik Mehta, IT specialist at the DFK Group, has therefore summarized some important information and rules of conduct.
“Home offices are generally quite well protected against data theft,” says the team leader of the IT department at the DFK headquarters in Kaltenkirchen. Employees from home usually access their employer’s server data directly via a so-called “VPN tunnel”. This means that no sensitive data gets onto the PC at home. “The employees only see the image on their screen and the data remains in the company,” explains Winik Mehta. Logging in takes place via a secure SSL connection.
In order to further increase security, the software on the PC itself is also important. The operating system should always be up to date. “If all updates are installed, Windows, for example, is always up to date,” says the IT specialist. Another important factor is the security of the passwords. These should only ever be known to the employee and should never be accessible to third parties. In this context, Winik Mehta points out some rules of conduct:
- Never use the automatic password saving function.
- Never write down passwords, neither on pieces of paper nor in your cell phone.
- Never send passwords via email or messenger.
- Always lock the PC when leaving the room.
If you follow all the rules, you will also help ensure that sensitive company data remains protected from access by third parties at home.
