Cybersecurity · Remote work
The five layers that matter for remote work: the device, the sign-in, the connection, the files and the home network.
Manage every device that touches data
Require MFA and conditional access
Share files without email attachments
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The remote work security best practices that matter most are: give remote staff company-managed devices, require multi-factor authentication (MFA) on every account, control access with sign-in policies rather than a wide-open VPN, keep files in managed cloud storage instead of personal drives and email attachments, and set a few simple rules for home Wi-Fi and public networks.
For a business with 10 to 100 employees, these are achievable in weeks with tools you probably already pay for in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. The rest of this guide walks through each layer, what good looks like and the order to tackle it.
In an office, the network, the firewall and the IT person’s eyes did some of the security work. At home, an employee may share a router with smart TVs and children’s gaming consoles, print to an unknown printer and log in from a café. NIST’s telework guide (SP 800-46) makes the core point: treat remote devices and networks as untrusted, protect the device itself and limit each person’s access to what they actually need.
The practical upshot is that security has to travel with the person and the device, not sit at the office door.
Unmanaged personal laptops are one of the most common gaps. A company device you can manage centrally gives you control over the basics.
Stolen passwords remain one of the most common ways in. CISA recommends MFA for every account and phishing-resistant MFA where possible.
Many small businesses still run a VPN that drops remote users onto the whole office network. That made sense when everything lived on an office server. Today, most work lives in cloud apps, and there are better options.
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You cannot manage every employee’s router, but you can set simple expectations and make them easy to follow.
Write down how you will handle the day someone leaves: who disables accounts, who recovers the laptop and which shared passwords change. Our employee offboarding checklist covers this step by step.
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Not always. If your files and apps are in the cloud, direct access with MFA and device checks is often simpler and safer. A VPN or zero trust access tool is still useful for on-premises servers and older applications.
It is safer to issue company-managed laptops. Personal computers are hard to update, protect and wipe, and you cannot control who else uses them.
Turn on multi-factor authentication for every account, starting with email and file storage. It blocks most attacks that rely on stolen passwords.
Ask staff to change the router admin password, update firmware, use WPA2 or WPA3 and put smart home devices on a guest network. Pair this with managed devices so security does not depend on the home network alone.
