The remote work environment has been around for years. In fact, 56% of employees in the US have a job where some of what they do could be done remotely even before the pandemic. However, no one could have predicted the sudden need to fast-track remote worker access to corporate systems.
Overnight, we’ve gone from environments where most of us were confined to an office building, to a brave new world where workers need remote access to corporate systems from all sorts of devices, on potentially unsecured home and Wi-Fi networks, and public clouds we don’t control. How do we know if our laptops have malware, or if the Wi-Fi we’re using has a backdoor waiting to be exploited?
