The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to our lives: social distancing, face masks, and WFH (work from home). Based on health scientists’ advice to protect society and driven by the need to maintain business continuity, private and public sector organizations have directed their employees to work from home.
The change in work habits is enormous: according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 29 percent of Americans were able to work from home before the COVID-19 era. However, remote working is here to stay. According to a recent Gartner survey, 74% of enterprises intend to maintain at least 5% of staff in permanent remote work employment, while 17% of the respondents said that at least 20% of employees in their workforce would be turned over to permanent remote employment.
Working from home should be a business continuity strategy option for all businesses. Not only to cope with public health crises, but to be able to sustain operations in any emergency, like natural disasters or terrorist attacks.
However, remote working introduces various security risks and challenges for businesses. With employees working from home, connecting to corporate assets through their home Wi-Fi often using their personal devices (laptops, smartphones, or tablets), the corporate boundaries have evaporated.
Businesses are faced with hard to solve questions. How can you secure the access to your corporate data? How can you effectively and continuously authenticate the devices accessing your assets? Corporate security teams need to find usable and effective solutions to many problems.
Many employees are using their privately-owned equipment, which might not be compatible with the corporate applications. In addition, their home Wi ..
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