Employee Remote Work Amid Coronavirus Risks Security Flaws (1)

Company employees that work from home during the novel coronavirus outbreak must meet data-security requirements or risk regulators’ scrutiny.

The employees may use tools that lack firewalls or tap into public Wi-Fi, creating data-security vulnerabilities, privacy attorneys and security executives said. Many small- and medium-sized companies aren’t prepared for the risk, they said.

The businesses should use coming weeks to harden systems for remote work before the spread of COVID-19, the illness linked to the current outbreak, worsens, said Kirk Nahra, co-chair of Wilmer Hale’s cybersecurity and privacy practice. “This event, unusual as it is, actually is an example of ...