Few things have had such a drastic impact on workplace culture in recent years as the nearly overnight shift during the pandemic to remote work for just about every company for which such a business model was feasible. Instead of commuting into an office, a majority of employees are logging in to their jobs from home — and increasingly relying on cloud-based applications such as Google Drive or Dropbox to collaborate and get work done. Now that we’ve all gotten the hang of doing business via Zoom in our sweats, it’s unlikely that many companies will ever go back to a full-time, everyone in the office, everyday scenario.
There is a downside to this situation, however. Reliance on cloud-based apps run on home computers and personal devices of your employees can leave your organization’s data especially vulnerable to cyber theft and corruption. People are accessing company systems using their own network …