https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200401/09114844211/security-privacy-brave-new-work-home-world.shtml

We have moved to a radically remote posture, leaving a lot of empty real-estate in corporate

offices and abandoning the final protections of the digital perimeter. For years, we’ve heard that

the perimeter is dead and there are no borders in cyberspace. We have even had promises of

a new and better style of working without being bound to a physical office and the tyranny and

waste of the commute. However, much like the promise of less travel in a digital age or even the

total paperless office these work-life aspirations never had a chance to materialize before

COVID-19 forced us to disperse and connect over the Internet. This has massive implications

on corporate culture and productivity. More immediately, the surge in use of remote work

capabilities has consequences from a security and privacy perspective that cannot be ignored.

For some, working from home isn’t new. This is especially true for those in sales and field

marketing across many industries or for knowledge workers, such as federal government

employees that are familiar with their telecommuting contract. The day after the “stay home”

order is given, the rest of the company suddenly find themselves doing the math on how to stay

productive, whether they are the 20% of largely general and administrative or management staff

who are always in the office for a young tech startup or the 80% of all employees at a big blue

chip company. Some already have a laptop that they bring with them everywhere and are used

to bringing home, but for others it’s time to spark up the family computer or get a hastily issued

company laptop and try to get it running without an IT technician parked at their elbow to help.

Others will grab a tablet or a smartphone, once relegated to mostly personal use, and repurpose

it to attend to professional needs. Any way you look at it, the enterprise footprint just grew and

radically changed in a 24 hour period.