Remote Work Cybersecurity: A Practical Training Guide
Your employees left the office network years ago. They open company data on home WiFi, sync it to personal phones, and connect through VPNs that attackers now probe first. The perimeter you used to defend moved into hundreds of living rooms.
That shift changed where breaches start. Exploitation of vulnerabilities was the initial access vector in 20% of breaches last year, a 34% jump, with attackers focusing on VPNs and perimeter devices, according to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report. The unpatched router and the always-on VPN are no longer edge cases.
Below, we break down the real risks of distributed work, the home-network and device habits that close them, and the exercises that turn those habits into reflex.