The pandemic’s shift to remote work brought new cyber threats for businesses, as the mix of business and personal life that’s at home presents new opportunities for attackers to break in. Companies that centered employees at an office would typically focus their protections of IP and personal info on the devices and networks within the office. But now it must extend to the home of each employee.

“What’s happened is your attack surface has grown exponentially,” said Gregg Smith, the chairman of the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland, Inc. (CAMI) and CEO of Columbia-based Attila Security. “Now you have tens of hundreds of thousands of employee working from home, many of which have to work on home computers or are working on a combination of home computers or tablets with an office or a work computer. … You’re typically connecting to Wi-Fi that might have a simple password or no password at all.

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