Even with reasonable cybersecurity measures for remote working in place, a move to a hybrid working model will increase the risk of a breach.
When the first UK lockdown hit back in March 2020, it wasn’t too much of a jump for Purbeck Personal Guarantee Insurance to adapt to a remote-only operation. The company was young, just four years old. It was already geared up for remote, agile working.
“We were quite fortunate in that respect,” explains managing director Todd Davison. “We’re primarily cloud-based. We haven’t got legacy telephony systems, big servers or big data rooms. And because we have a relatively small team, it’s made it easier to adapt. Our office telephone system is VoIP anyway, so it was just a case of downloading a mobile application and rerouting our main number through that.”
The company had some data security requirements in place. Remote desktop access requires two-factor authentication, similar to the multi-step verification with mobile banking. Passwords – which must be alphanumerical – are changed every 120…
