Teleworkers and Data Security

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the expansion of teleworking employment arrangements in the federal government has significant implications on organizations' data security and information technology operational strategies. The paper points out that telecommuting security concerns are an important area of study due to the sheer number of teleworkers, the rapidly changing information technology and the increase in remote access. The paper reveals several different solutions for the telework security problem; however, the most reasonable solution seems to be increased awareness and training regarding this problem. The paper also includes a section paraphrasing and summarizing source material and an extensive working annotated bibliography.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Literature Review
Recommended Solutions
Paraphrasing and Summarizing Source Material
Working Annotated Bibliography

From the Paper:

"Of course, with every argument there is a counter-argument, and not all of the literature reviewed reports that teleworkers cause a greater threat to security. In fact there are some reports, such as one described by Sternstein (2007) that Federal teleworkers are actually less of a security threat than traditional office Federal workers. The report Sternstein is referring to comes from the Telework Exchange and explains that the reasons security threats are reduced via telework is that materials are not being physically transferred from place to place to place."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Antonopoulos, A. M. (2007, October 10) Combining work and play threatens business security. Network World, http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/101007-risk-reward.html?fsrc=rss-antonopoulos
• Bain, B. (2007, September 13) Justice says no to private PCs for telework, FCW.com, http://www.fcw.com/online/news/150044-1.html
• Hines, M. (2007, August 21) Mobile workers still struggling with security; A new study shows that even as the business use of mobile devices increases, many users are unconcerned or uninformed about security issues and practices." InfoWorld, http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/21/Mobile-workers-still-struggling-with-security_1.html
• Jones, K.C. (2007, November 5) Businesses more concerned about mobile, remote security, but still ignore training, InformationWeek, http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802456
• Kilpatrick, I (2007, November). Dam data leakage at source: how unified encryption management (UEM) is changing the threat landscape, Software World, 12(4).

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