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Covid-19 Unveiled a New Security Gap

By Eddy Bobritsky, CEO & Co-Founder, Minerva Labs

As COVID-19 spreads, more organisations are enforcing remote work from home, making employees
home computers more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks.

The attackers don’t need to attack the perimeter any more, they can go for much easier targets such as
home PCs and Users.

The solutions organisations use to day are limited at the same time, there is a desire to increase the
home-user’s productivity as much as possible during these times.

The desire, force organisations to take extra risks without solid defense (endpoint security) as the CISO
used to within the organisation or the corporate PCs and laptops.

The two main reasons for limited endpoint security are:

• operational challenge:
◦ the variety of OS and Applications flavour on Home-PCs are huge, and it’s simply impossible to
deploy and manage endpoint security at scale.
• privacy
◦ privacy regulations do NOT allow corporates deploy corporate endpoint security controls on non-
corporate endpoints, simply because, if after working hours the Home-PCs been used to surf funny sites,
it’s non of the corporate business. deploying endpoint security on such home-PCs will enable the
corporate to access such data, which is private therefore it’s illegal.

In the work-from-home reality, CISO is limited with the security controls it can deploy, and usually will use
VPNs, Virtual Working Environment, 2FA, etc. these are great, but do not provide the security controls
that are needed on the endpoint.

Minerva is the only vendor that eliminates this risk by providing a unique, install-free Remote User
Protection for any endpoint throughout the entire VPN session with full user privacy

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