Heightened Cybersecurity Risk of Travelers and Remote Workers

While remote connectivity offers employees flexibility and convenience, it also opens potential avenues for breaches through unsecured networks, device theft, or phishing schemes.

• Remember the network you are working on extends to your global colleagues who are operating in very different cyber environments. To safeguard sensitive data and maintain network integrity, organizations must adopt a proactive and multi-faceted security approach.
• While your development or humanitarian work is likely not classified, it is nonetheless of interest to (1) state actors who want to know what US-funded activities you’re performing in their country, and (2) cybercriminals attracted by the international transfer of funds to unsophisticated local entities.

Read more about mitigation measures in the Security Magazine article here.