How to Create a Post-Pandemic Data Security RFP

Even before the pandemic, the last couple of years has seen a series of seismic shifts in data privacy and security for companies. In 2021, there’s no denying things have changed. Some offices are opening up, but for many of us in the data security trenches, we’re still in the middle of a pandemic. Many of us are still firmly embedded in a protocol that’s been in place for more than a year now. 


Sadly, companies that haven't changed their priorities to keep up, ensuring that employees who work from anywhere are secured and empowered to do so, continue to struggle.  


In fact, according to a recent report issued by Gartner on the top risks to monitor and mitigate, the number one concern for risk and audit executives so far this year is cybersecurity control failures. That’s followed up by complications stemming from the new working model and remote talent management.


Many of these businesses shot themselves in the foot from the get-go. As Gartner notes, as IT teams scaled up VPN access across companies, security teams had to modernize remote work access policies and move away from on premises policies, off the cuff. These companies had little experience safeguarding an entire remote workforce, but like many of us over the last year, they adapted on the fly.


The pandemic has shifted organizations’ data security needs, affecting how much they’re willing to spend, their sales cycle, security considerations, and so on. I’ve seen it firsthand with data security requests for proposals, or RFPs, that have come in. Nowadays, when organizations sit down to write an RFP, they know a mass retu ..

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