How do you keep data secure with offshore staff?
How to keep data secure with offshore assistants: named accounts, MFA, password managers, device rules, provider due diligence, privacy law and offboarding.
The short answer
Keep data secure with offshore staff by giving each person a named account with only the access they need, requiring MFA and a password manager, never sharing your own passwords, setting device and data-handling rules in a signed policy, vetting the provider's controls in writing, and removing all access the same day an engagement ends.
Step by step
- Named, least-privilege accounts. No shared logins; review access monthly.
- MFA and a password manager. On every system with sensitive data.
- A signed security policy. Devices, data handling, incidents.
- Provider due diligence. Ask the 12 questions in writing.
- Same-day offboarding. Use an access register.
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