Employees have recently requested remote access to corporate email and shared drives. Remote access has never been offered; however, the need to improve productivity and rapidly responding to…

Developing a security policy that merely defines remote access requirements is an incomplete administrative measure and does not actively enforce protections or establish a security posture.

Making shared drives read-only is a narrow data access restriction that addresses only one attack vector and does not provide comprehensive protection for the corporate network.

Planning security policies based on the assumption that external environments are compromised or untrusted embodies a zero-trust security model - every connection from outside the perimeter is treated as potentially hostile. This approach drives the selection of strong authentication, endpoint validation, least-privilege access, and network segmentation controls that comprehensively protect the corporate network. It sets the strategic security posture that all other specific controls should derive from.

A DLP program logs data access but is a detective control focused on data egress; it does not broadly protect the corporate network from the range of threats introduced by remote access.