(Image: Nattakorn via Adobe Stoci)
From the way restaurants operate to how sports are played, many people expect life to operate a whole lot differently in the pandemic's aftermath. The big question for us, though, is what will the new normal be for those in cybersecurity?
"I think it's worth pointing out that there's only two ways security changes: a fundamental change in the business environment – because security is there for business – or if the threat changes," says Bryson Bort, founder of SCYTHE and GRIMM, and co-founder of the ICS Village. "On the first point, clearly business will be different going forward. I think we finally crossed a Rubicon for remote workers, which changes the threat surface."
He's not alone in seeing a dispersed workforce as a significant change agent.
"When we deal with the new normal, no company that I've talked with has plans to bring the full workforce back in 2020, if ever," says Kiersten Todt, managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute. Even if some critical functions flow back into centralized offices, she explains, it's unlikely that every employee who worked in an office in 2019 will be back in that office in 2021. That will create a "hybrid" workforce for most enterprise organizations.
"How do we secure the hybrid workforce? We combine the remote workforce with the secure workspace," Todt explains. "Creating a unified cyber infrastructure that's secure across the hybrid environment is critical."
For that unified cyber infrastructure to be effective, it will have to satisfy a number of needs.
"W ..
Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
