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Threat models are an often discussed but sometimes nebulous term that is frequently thrown around within the cyber-security arena. The intent is to structurally plot the risks, threats, and mitigation to a particular item of value―something Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) (now a ReliaQuest company) has outlined in a previous blog, Understanding Threat Modelling.
Though the remote-work landscape has been steadily moving forward over the past decade, COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) has forced many organizations to accelerate their plans or create them on the fly. As such, Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) (ReliaQuest) has produced a threat model for the remote worker, taking into account the various risks and threats that employees face while working off site.
In approaching our remote-worker threat model, we walked through 7 steps that will serve as a guide to the rest of this blog:
Enumerating the remote worker’s assets and reviewing process flow diagrams should be taken and applied on a case-by-case basis. There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to those first two items, as every enterprise environment is built differently.
The threat actors we would expect to target remote workers are very similar to those targeting in-office employees; however, working remotely introduces a larger attack surface. As such, controls on specific systems or processes may be reduced and can increase the likelihood of these attacks being successful.
Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) (ReliaQuest) has identified the following threat actor categories that have the motive to abuse and take advantage of remote workers.
The threats generated by the previously identified threat actors are not wholly new attack techniques. However, some of them become more prevalent in a remote working situation.
Here are six cyber threats we’re likely to see targeting your remote workers:
Finally, after examining the potential threat actors, along with the tactics and techniques they may use, security controls should be recommended to decision makers for implementation. In the case of remote workers, Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) (ReliaQuest) recommends that the following six security measures be adopted to decrease your organization’s overall risk level.
Despite the recent surge caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, the global workforce is increasingly moving to a remote working environment. As such, organizations should be applying security controls and creating threat models for their particular environments now, and after things go back to normal. Digital Shadows (now ReliaQuest) (ReliaQuest) strongly recommends planning ahead for situations like these, though understandably this might not always be possible. In that case, please feel free to use this as a resource to help guide internal security teams to start thinking about remote working threat vectors as well as threat modeling in general.
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