In this white paper, we take a closer look at corporate-associated residential IP addresses (WFH-RO IPs) and discover attributes that pose uniquecybersecurity risks as compared to in-office corporate networks.
With companies around the world adapting to a remote workforce in an expedient manner, we wanted to understand any inherent and unconsidered risks posed to those organizations due to the home environment. We isolated the study to the assessment of the network perimeter of devices on those networks and researched the differences in the distribution of compromised systems observed on those networks on a sample of 41,000 US-based organizations.
In order to perform this study, we first had to construct the asset maps of WFH-RO IP addresses associated with each company programmatically. Since BitSight evaluates the externally observable security performance of organizations across many industries around the world, we already had the corresponding maps of assets directly controlled and associated with organizations. We enriched the WFH-RO maps using the same aforementioned telemetry that we continuously gather to assess corporate cybersecurity hygiene as data points for this study
