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With many organisations relying on digital infrastructure to allow staff to work from home, a legal expert has warned that ‘prevention is better than cure’ when it comes to cybersecurity.
This news comes as recent data from Centrify has discovered that 39% of UK business decision-makers have admitted to dismissing staff members due to a breach of company cybersecurity policy since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jane Fielding, Employment Partner at Gowling WLG told HR Grapevine that, now more so than ever before, employers are relying on digital systems to allow staff to continue to work from home.
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“This brings with it increased risk of systems being compromised, whether accidentally or deliberately. As ever, prevention is better than cure, so firms need to make sure that staff are aware of the increased risks, trained adequately to minimise accidental data breaches and have timely support in place to help them with systems issues,” she added.
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