DATA PROTECTION - 02.07.2020

ICO’s IT security checklists for homeworkers

New guidance. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new IT security checklists for employers who currently have staff working from home (see The next step ). These checklists aren’t exhaustive, but they do cover the common IT vulnerabilities which the ICO often sees exploited in homeworking settings.

Secure solutions. As well as identifying what remote working policies and procedures you should have in place for your temporary and permanent homeworkers, the security checklists give advice on own devices, cloud storage, remote desktops, remote access to workplace software applications and email. Where relevant, the ICO signposts to other useful guidance. The ICO is also reminding employers that staff should not use any personal accounts for the storage and/or transmission of any work-related data.

For the ICO’s Working from home - security checklists for employers, visit http://tipsandadvice-personnel.co.uk/download (PS 22.14.08).

The ICO has published security checklists for employers who have staff working from home; they cover policies, procedures, cloud storage, remote desktops and email. Employees should not use personal accounts to store or transmit work-related data.

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