THE SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF AN INCREASINGLY REMOTE WORKFORCE

Did you know that residential IPs account for more than 90% of all observed malware infections and compromised systems?

We dove into our BitSight data to learn more about the unique and evolving challenges security leaders are facing as a large portion of the workforce goes remote. Explore our findings below.

During the period of March 2020, we looked at a sample size of 41,000 US-based organizations to understand the difference between corporate networks and Work From Home-Remote Office (WFH-RO) networks from a

cyber-risk perspective.

More and more industries are adopting a mandated work-from-home policy

In the US, during the fourth week of March:

84%

of
Education sector traffic shifted off network.

63%

of

Government/Politics

sector traffic

shifted off network.

35%

of

Finance sector traffic

shifted off network.

Remote office networks are increasingly susceptible to malware

13%

of companies we observed

have malware on their

corporate networks.

45%

of remote office networks have

observed malware.

This means that:

Corporate-associated home office networks are more than 3x as

likely to have at least one

malware infection.

You are 7.5x more likely to have at least five distinct malware families on a remote office network than a corporate one.

There's up to a 20x higher population of malware

on remote office networks than corporate ones.

QSnatch: Observed 29.7x more

Mirai: Observed 20.1x more

Necurs: Observed 13.8x more

Trickbot: Observed 3.8x more

25.2% of corporate-associated residential IP addresses have one

or more services exposed on the Internet — which is 2.5x more than corporate networks.

Hackers are taking advantage of new remote office vulnerabilities and the

public's ongoing fear

Some organizations are reporting as much as a 40% uptick in phishing and other cyber scams.

Source:

CNBC

From January to March, there’s been a 72% increase in phishing attacks trying to penetrate office networks and steal corporate data.

Source:

ABC

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During the period of March 2020, we looked at a sample size of 41,000 US-based organizations to understand the difference between corporate networks and Work From Home-Remote Office (WFH-RO) networks from a

cyber-risk perspective.

More and more industries are adopting a mandated work-from-home policy

In the US, during the fourth week of March:

84%

of Education sector traffic shifted off network.

63%

of

Government/Politics

sector traffic

shifted off network.

35%

of

Finance sector traffic

shifted off network.

Remote office networks are increasingly susceptible to malware

13%

of companies we observed

have malware on their

corporate networks.

45%

of remote office networks have

observed malware.

This means that:

Corporate-associated home office networks are more than 3x as

likely to have at least one

malware infection.

You are 7.5x more likely to have at least five distinct malware families on a remote office network than a corporate one.

There's up to a 20x higher population of malware

on remote office networks than corporate ones.

QSnatch: Observed 29.7x more

Mirai: Observed 20.1x more

Necurs: Observed 13.8x more

Trickbot: Observed 3.8x more

25.2% of corporate-associated residential IP addresses have one

or more services exposed on the Internet — which is 2.5x more than corporate networks.

Hackers are taking advantage of new remote office vulnerabilities and the

public's ongoing fear

BitSight Attack Surface Analytics

of
Education sector traffic shifted off network.