40% of financial institutions Private terminals at home There is room for improvement in terms of security October 17, 11:05
Working from home is becoming more widespread at financial institutions to prevent the transmission of the new coronavirus.
Under these circumstances, a survey by the Bank of Japan found that 40% of financial institutions allowed the use of private terminals, and there was room for improvement in terms of security.
From July to August, the Bank of Japan conducted a questionnaire survey on working from home for 239 financial institutions.
According to this, 41.6% of financial institutions allow the use of private terminals such as personal computers when working from home.
Next, when asked about security measures for private terminals in multiple answers, 56.5% used countermeasure software for malicious programs called malware, and 55.1% applied the latest security programs.
All of them are about 25 to 12 points lower than the terminals lent by the company, indicating that there is room for improvement in terms of security.
Hideaki Higo, Chief of the Examination Planning Section of the Bank of Japan, said, "Financial institutions handle the financial assets and information of customers and play an important role as a settlement service. I'm talking.