Remote Worker Security Assessment

The office used to have one front door you could guard. Now every employee's spare room is a front door, and you hold none of the keys. Distributed working has permanently dissolved the tidy perimeter that traditional security assumed - your people connect from home networks you do not control, on devices that move between corporate and personal use, across the open internet. This is a change that attackers understand all too well: modern attacks very commonly rely on stealing the credentials of legitimate authenticated users of your systems, entering through the front door where firewalls do not matter and alerts are not triggered. This places exposed and weakly protected remote access systems among the most exploited initial-access vectors in real breaches. Our Remote Worker Security Assessment evaluates this threat vector end to end, from the home environment to the corporate resources it reaches, and identifies the exposures that remote and hybrid working quietly introduce.

The Remote Access Surface

We assess the access mechanisms themselves: the VPN or zero-trust access platform your staff connect through, its configuration, authentication strength, and the enforcement of multi-factor authentication on every path in. We examine split-tunnelling and what it exposes, the security posture required of a device before it is granted access, and whether a compromised home device can reach corporate resources unimpeded. Remote desktop and similar services receive particular scrutiny, as RDP and VNC systems are generally complex and prone to configuration issues and other security flaws.

The Home As Part Of The Threat Model

For the remote worker, the home network is effectively part of the corporate threat model. Shared networks, insecure home routers, and the proximity of personal and family devices all bear on the risk to a corporate endpoint, and we assess the controls that should insulate the corporate device from that environment. Companies cannot fully enforce security best-practices around employee's devices, and we face legal restrictions when assessing the security practices of employees in their private lives. Within these constraints, we still aim to test, and guide on hardening, the security practices of remote workers, as well as the extent to which companies can decouple their security from the home systems of remote workers. Where bring-your-own-device arrangements are in scope, we assess the boundary between corporate and personal use and whether corporate data is genuinely contained on devices the organisation does not fully control - without intruding on the employee's personal environment, since our focus is the corporate device and its containment rather than the home network itself.

The Real Perimeter Has Moved

The thread running through every finding is the same: in a distributed organisation the endpoint and the identity, not the network boundary, have become the real perimeter, and your controls need to reflect that. We assess how access decisions are actually made - whether they consider device health and context, or merely a correct password - which is the same shift towards verified, continuous access that underpins our Cloud and Identity Assessment. We give particular attention to the SaaS applications remote staff reach directly over the internet, bypassing any corporate network entirely, since these are frequently the least-governed part of the estate.

What You Receive

You receive a map of the remote-access attack surface, the exposures that matter prioritised above the rest, and practical guidance towards a model in which access is verified continuously and device posture is enforced rather than assumed. It is especially valuable for businesses that grew their remote-working arrangements quickly out of necessity, or are now formalising a long-term hybrid model, and have never gone back to assess what those arrangements actually expose. It connects naturally to our Mobile and Credential Theft assessments, with which remote-worker risk is deeply intertwined.