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If companies can’t monitor employees working from home how do they protect against malware? Does every employee now bear responsibility for keeping their system

If companies can’t monitor employees working from home how do they protect against malware? Does every employee now bear responsibility for keeping their system secure? If they cause a data breach because they didn’t update their system could they be liable?

capableweb 5y ago
What does monitoring have to do with malware? IT departments can setup automatic updating so employee equipment fetches and installs updates from the departments servers, and the "service" running on the employees machine doesn't have to send out monitoring data in order to facilitate this. Or is it essential to monitor the employee in order to prevent malware for some reason I'm too inexperienced to see?
- jdavis703 5y ago
  We have some software that monitors all network connections. I assume it’s for DLP and perhaps identifying suspicious traffic. As far as I know, management doesn’t use it for anything more than that. But it’s certainly a form of monitoring, even if they’re not using it to enforce a virtual “butts in seats” policy.
simion314 5y ago
>If companies can’t monitor employees working from home how do they protect against malware? WTF ? if you as a company want protection againt malware then give me a super locked down work machine, where I can't install shit and updates will be done automatically? If I work remote and I am using my own hardware then fuck you, I don't install your malware on my own machine so you can check my personal stuff. So give me a lockeddown work machine if I have some super secret project that I work on. If you don't trust me and think I will screenshot your secrets then maybe is better we end this. I work from home for more then 10 years, it is all based on trust and progress tracking, but I don't work with super secret stuff, just the average proprietary SPAs(or desktop apps in the past).

capableweb 5y ago

What does monitoring have to do with malware? IT departments can setup automatic updating so employee equipment fetches and installs updates from the departments servers, and the "service" running on the employees machine doesn't have to send out monitoring data in order to facilitate this. Or is it essential to monitor the employee in order to prevent malware for some reason I'm too inexperienced to see?

jdavis703 5y ago
We have some software that monitors all network connections. I assume it’s for DLP and perhaps identifying suspicious traffic. As far as I know, management doesn’t use it for anything more than that. But it’s certainly a form of monitoring, even if they’re not using it to enforce a virtual “butts in seats” policy.

simion314 5y ago

>If companies can’t monitor employees working from home how do they protect against malware? WTF ? if you as a company want protection againt malware then give me a super locked down work machine, where I can't install shit and updates will be done automatically? If I work remote and I am using my own hardware then fuck you, I don't install your malware on my own machine so you can check my personal stuff. So give me a lockeddown work machine if I have some super secret project that I work on. If you don't trust me and think I will screenshot your secrets then maybe is better we end this. I work from home for more then 10 years, it is all based on trust and progress tracking, but I don't work with super secret stuff, just the average proprietary SPAs(or desktop apps in the past).