CISOs and cybersecurity teams around the world are watching their threat surface multiply as millions of staffers find themselves working from home for the first time in order to help constrain the spread of Coronavirus.
The removal of these people from the safe and controlled working environment found in their offices and tossing them into the wild, so to speak, means a greater dependence on VPNs, which may prove problematical as most large enterprises are not prepared to host the majority of their workforce online, and smaller companies may not be set up at all for this type of access.
Then there is the additional threat posed by workers operating outside the direct oversight of IT and security teams possibly making catastrophic decisions that could endanger the entire organization.
Stan Lowe, global CISO for Zscaler, noted that most businesses have enough VPN hardware to generally handle between 20 percent and 30 percent of their workforce working remotely. However, now that entire corporations have been forced to send their employees home with their laptops this is proving not to be anywhere near enough.
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