S 3.21 Training and further education of telecommuters as regards security-related issues

Initiation responsibility: Superiors, IT Security Management

Implementation responsibility: Superiors, IT Security Management

Telecommuters work partly or exclusively at home. Consequently, the security measures required in this case partly differ from those pertaining to work at the institution itself. For this reason, it is necessary to prepare a security concept for telecommuting workstations. Following the announcement of this concept, telecommuters must be briefed on the security measures to be implemented and, if necessary, trained to observe them. In addition, telecommuters must be trained to handle telecommuting workstations to the extent that they are able to perform simple maintenance tasks and solve simple problems independently.

Additional controls:

• Have special IT security concepts been prepared for telecommuting?

• Have telecommuters been trained to implement IT security measures?