Hackers feared to have penetrated half of UK businesses due to staff working from home

HACKERS are feared to have penetrated half of UK companies as a consequence of workers working from house.

And one in ten corporations confirmed they had been victims of a cyber assault final 12 months, with IT methods regarded as extra weak, a research discovered.

Hackers are feared to have penetrated half of UK companies as a consequence of workers working from houseCredit score: Getty

4 out of 5 corporations had no protections towards cyber-criminals, the ballot by the British Chambers of Commerce and IT agency Cisco discovered.

Shevaun Haviland, Director Common of the BCC, mentioned: “The large shift to house working, and using cloud computing, for tens of hundreds of staff occurred virtually in a single day.

"So it's not shocking that many corporations had been caught out by the implications this had for his or her cyber-security preparations.”

He added that as corporations shift to hybrid working it's “extra important than ever that corporations have the precise cyber-security protections in place.”

Aine Rogers from Cisco added: “The strains between skilled and private are extra blurred than ever.

“Organisations are not simply defending an ‘workplace’ however a workforce on the kitchen desk.

“That’s why we have to evolve pondering to concentrate on securing your staff and what they're doing, not the place they're.”