As efforts to control the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic have increased, the Federal government has moved the majority of its workers to telework. While this is a great step to enable social distancing, it does open up serious cybersecurity concerns.

Late last month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a bulletin note from the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) on cybersecurity risks increasing with remotely accessible telework networks. ITL concluded that agencies and organizations should assume that malicious cyber actors will try to gain access to agency systems, and that they’ll try to leverage telework devices to gain access to the enterprise network or attempt to recover sensitive data.

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