The recent world crisis has significantly changed how people work nowadays. In the past, only a small number of employees were able to work from home all week; others were allowed to work from home only once or twice per week (and many, not at all). This old way of working turned upside down in just weeks, and now wherever possible, people have started working from home.

Some were provided company devices like notebooks while others had to use their personal computers to work. Many notebook dealers reported record sales in recent weeks. This transition is a significant change in people’s lives and comes with major IT security implications.

Remote work was a dream come true for people who decided to freelance or did IT-related work that allowed such possibilities. With the COVID-19 pandemic putting the whole world in quarantine, it seems that this dream-come-true is not a dream at all for most—certainly not for industries tied up in specific infrastructure, regulations, or work natures. For example, in the banking sector, the infrastructure is designed to be distributed between regions and continents. But work from office is the de facto standard because of regulations and compliance associated with the financial sector. Parts of governmental sector businesses can be executed remotely; however, access to classified data cannot be easily transformed for work from home, with or without interruptions.

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