As organisations grow or implement a new restructure there often becomes a demand for short-midterm contractors who can provide additional support through this time. Temporary contractors bring the benefit of additional skill sets and experience from outside your organisation, to support your permanent employees through busy periods or specialist projects. With the increase of home working or hybrid working within businesses – We are placing temporary workers and contractors within homebased and hybrid roles.
We spoke with Luke Gifford Technical Director at Computer Friendly Consultants who told us: “You can absolutely create a safe working space for home based temporary contractors. However, there are considerations that need to be looked at.”
Luke describes a common mistake companies make is failing to segregate the employees’ home Wi-Fi network. If you think about your own home and how many devices are connected via the Wi-Fi network: mobile phones, TV, Alexa, children’s tablets. Each device on the network adds additional risk to your business if your device shared that same network.
Therefore, it is best practise to create a guest Wi-Fi at home and ensure the business laptop is the only device on this network. By creating the “network isolation” the laptop cannot interact with any other devices in the home network, therefore granting internet access only. By doing so you eliminate all risk to your business whilst creating a successful working environment for the contractor.
There are many simple processes your organisation can put in place to optimise your cyber security levels.
The National Security Cyber Centre has put together a guide of how to keep your business safe whilst working with your off-site team. Download Guide.
For further advice visit the National Cyber Security Centre
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