Remote working: the biggest recent information governance challenge

“With workforces working from home, access to shared repositories and use of VPN infrastructure will skyrocket, often to breaking point. If and when reliability becomes an issue, more content – including customer, financial and proprietary information – will find its way onto local hard drives.

Employees will make rogue copies of active content and records to work with locally. This content will be subject to cyber security threats that are can be common-place in the home and are certainly more prevalent than in a typical corporate network. What is worse is that the content now stored locally is unlikely to be deleted when it’s no longer needed. It will hang around – unmanaged and unprotected – for who knows how long.” – read more at TechNative!