Following the pandemic, at least 70% of companies will permit a significant portion of their employees to work from home at least two days a week — requiring a revamped cybersecurity model, according to a new report by Forrester Research.
About 60% of organizations will move to a hybrid work environment, Forrester says. The analyst firm calls this "anywhere work" because it combines a significant amount of remote and office work. A small portion of businesses, about 10%, will focus on transitioning to a fully virtual work environment, while 30% will mainly head back to the office.
The mix of arrangements will require companies to focus their cybersecurity efforts on zero-trust frameworks, multifactor authentication, and endpoint monitoring, says JP Gownder, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester's Future of Work practice.
"There are technology solutions out there that make it possible," he says. "From a cybersecurity perspective, if you are willing to upgrade to modern tools, if you adopt as much endpoint security as possible to manage devices and data, and if you are building a viable cloud infrastructure with modern design principles, you have a baseline for decent security."
The report underscores that one of the lasting legacies of the coronavirus pandemic will be its demonstration that companies can support a massive remote workforce when necessary. While analysts see most workers going back to the office much of the time following the pandemic, their ability to work anywhere gives companies the option to have a significant remote workforce.
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