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IT-Security Compliance for Home Offices

Authors:
Christoph Haar
Erik Buchmann

Keywords: IT-Grundschutz; Home Office Security; Compliance; Basic Protection

Abstract:
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic increases the need to transfer employees into home offices. Securing a home office is challenging. Approaches, such as BSI Grundschutz, ISO 2700x, NIST 800-53 or ISIS12 focus on company premises, and the data carried outside must be strongly restricted. The focus of such approaches is to secure the IT-infrastructure on company premises but not on the employee’s private network. In this paper, we explore how the IT-Grundschutz Compendium, a standardized IT-security framework from the German Federal Office for Information Security, can be carried into a home office. Our objective is to extend the scope of protection of the BSI Grundschutz from company premises into the private areas of an employee in a home office. To this end, we apply the BSI Basic Protection to a basic home-office scenario. For each security requirement, we investigate whether it can be implemented by the employee, or by the employer.

Pages: 1 to 7

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: November 14, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-919-5

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from November 14, 2021 to November 18, 2021