Security Issues of Remote Work Environments and Alternative Solution Approaches

Authors : Can Kılıç, İsmail Berk Uzun, Abdullah Taha Ardoğan, Wardah Saleem, Arda Sezen

Pages : 46-51

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Publication Date : 2024-07-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Along with the pandemic, the number of employees working remotely has significantly increased. With this increase, also the cyberthreats related to remote workers greatly increased. So, the main question of how remote working affects the cybersecurity tried to be explained via analyzing common threats and mitigations in this study. Throughout the analysis it is found that two more aspects should be investigated; The threats affecting the remote workers and the mitigations affecting the related threats. To provide sufficient answers to these questions, well-known cyber-attacks explained using various studies with countermeasures in the third section. Then we focused on effective security practices and tools as well as how to make those practices and tools more effective. To provide sufficient guidance about how to use these mitigation ways for which attack types, a complete guideline provided for the remote workers. Also, a questionnaire is conducted among some university students to understand the awareness of phishing attacks using wrong URLs and website and email scams from many organizations and the results are showing that for the URL part the accuracy is 84.61% and for the email scams accuracy is 75.64%.
Keywords : Remote Work Environment, COVID 19, Cybersecurity, Remote Work Guideline, Awareness for Cyber Threat

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