Create or strengthen corporate data policies
With remote work, your employees likely don’t have the same network protections that they would when working in an office. Because of this, you may want to prohibit remote employees from storing or sharing certain pieces of sensitive data on their remote devices. You’ll need to create or strengthen your corporate data policies to let employees know what is and isn’t okay to download on their company devices.
However, you may have remote employees that need access to critical data to do their jobs effectively. If that data isn’t stored in the cloud where they can easily access it without downloading, you will need to provide them with additional security tools like a virtual private network (VPN), allowing them to access the company network remotely.