Cyber Security Compliance Among Remote Workers

Remote working has become an important part of keeping operations up and running and managing the security risks associated with it is essential for organizational development. This study seeks to find out how remote employees comply with their organizations’ cybersecurity regulations and policies. The objectives of this research are to investigate strategies organizations use to keep positive cyber security compliance, understand the challenges remote workers face, and how they are reducing their cyber risk exposure through compliance. Furthermore, it also aims at gathering the best compliance practices used for maintaining trust, safeguarding, and reducing insider risk/human error which will help in recommending ways that employees can adopt to improve upon their cybersecurity compliance A mixed-method research approach is used to investigate remote workers’ awareness, commitment, and motivation to cyber security compliance. The findings show that although most organizations have strategies to keep positive cyber security compliance for their remote workers, more than half of the interviewees are ignorant about it or lack the requisite training needed to comply.