Keep Calm and Carry on with Cybersecurity @Home: A Framework for Securing Homeworking IT Environment

International Journal On Cyber Situational Awareness (IJCSA)

ISSN: (Print) 2057-2182 ISSN: (Online) 2633-495X

DOI: 10.22619/IJCSA

Published Semi-annually. Est. 2014

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr Cyril Onwubiko, Director – Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Cyber Security, Research Series, London, UK; IEEE DVP

Associate Editors:

Professor Frank Wang, Professor of Future Computing, Chair IEEE Computer Society, UK&RI, School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Professor Karen Renaud, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK


Keep Calm and Carry on with Cybersecurity @Home: A Framework for Securing Homeworking IT Environment

Max Hashem Eiza, Romanus Izuchukwu Okeke, John Dempsey, Vinh-Thong Ta

Abstract:

For the first time in modern history, businesses had to suddenly facilitate homeworking for a large proportion, if not all, of their workforce because of COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that employees access sensitive corporate data from non-corporate networks opens the door wide for many cybersecurity risks that could result in data loss, breaches and consequently huge financial loss. Since the move was sudden, most businesses, especially small ones, did not have the time to assess their homeworking cybersecurity requirements. This paper aims to bridge this gap and propose a multi-layered framework that is focused on businesses’ requirements to guide cybersecurity @home activities. The framework can be also beneficial for businesses that currently have homeworking cybersecurity policies to assess their compliance with the framework and enrich it.

Keywords: Cybersecurity; COVID-19 pandemic; Cyber risk awareness; Homeworking; IT Environment.

ISSN: (Print) 2057-2182 (Online) 2633-495X

Volume 5. No. 1

DOI: 10.22619/IJCSA.2020.100131

Date: Jan. 2021

Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Eiza, M.H., Okeke, R.I., Dempsey, J. & Ta, V.T. (2020). Keep Calm and Carry on with Cybersecurity @Home: A Framework for Securing Homeworking IT Environment. International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp1-25.

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