About eight in 10 public- and private-sector organisations here attributed such a working arrangement to a rise in cyber attacks across the board, said a report by software company VMware on June 4.

This is comparable with the global figure across 14 markets.

Nearly seven in 10 here said the attacks were serious enough to report to regulators or to call in an incident response team. Globally, this is higher – at eight in 10.

“Digital transformation programmes advanced rapidly as the cyber-attack surface expanded to include living rooms, kitchens, home networks and personal devices,” explained principal cyber-security strategist Rick McElroy of VMware’s security business unit.

Mr McElroy added that while remote employees’ work laptops are usually well secured, home Wi-Fi networks used to go online can pose serious security risks.

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