Security
The shift to hybrid work has dramatically changed the threat landscape and has increased the attack surface. Securing remote access is necessary but insufficient to adequately protect the workforce.
- Workers are using multiple devices and connecting directly to the Internet to access cloud applications.
- Work that happened primarily on managed endpoints is now happening on unmanaged ones.
- Threat actors are taking advantage of pandemic-related content to launch attacks, increasing their focus on points of weakness in the security architecture, such as remote access to applications.
A comprehensive security approach to hybrid work is needed. An approach that focuses on workforce security awareness education, transforms networking and security to provide secure access wherever users and applications reside with Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), adoption of a Zero Trust methodology to ensure secure remote access from anywhere and any device, reduced risk from compromised credentials, endpoint security to protect devices, and an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform to increase response speed.
