Telecommuting poses security risk.

The article offers information on the study released by consulting firm Ernst & Young in partnership with the advocacy group Center for Democracy and Technology in the U.S. Much information of the report "Risk at Home: Privacy and Security Risks in Telecommuting" were derived from 73 corporate and government organizations, to find out whether they had formal telecommuting security policies implemented and whether employees working from home were trained in protecting data. It concludes that assigning business and government data at higher risk that if appropriate security best practices were used in the home telecommuting environment. Moreover, it has been reported that 85% of organizations indicated that they implement at least one of five methods for protecting hardware assests.