Should we monitor the home networks of remote employees?
No: monitor the company devices and what reaches the company, not the employee's home. A home network carries the family's phones, games and private traffic, and watching it would collect personal data you have no reason to hold, which is hard to justify under the GDPRGDPR: General Data Protection Regulation. The EU data protection law (Regulation (EU) 2016/679). and employment law. What you can reasonably protect is the company laptop and the company network: run endpoint protection and device management on the laptop, require the company VPN for internal resources, and monitor where that traffic arrives. With NetSenX, a company laptop can run the agent itself, which watches that one device's connections wherever it is; it does not monitor other devices on the home network. Tell employees exactly what is monitored on their work device, and why.
General information, not legal advice. National laws can add to the EU texts quoted here, for example deadlines, forms or reporting channels: check your own country's rules.
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Terms used here
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- The EU data protection law (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).