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FEATURE: BYOD
Securing
a remote
workforce
The modern workforce is more
flexible and collaborative than
ever before, with technology
enabling employees to work from
anywhere, at any time, on any
device. But these new remote
workforces are not without their
security risks. We spoke to two
industry experts about some of
the biggest cyberthreats and how
companies can best address these.
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What are the main cybersecurity challenges that
remote workforces need to overcome and how can
CIOs address these?
NICOLAI SOLLING, CTO, HELP AG
Securing the remote workforce has always been a challenge and there
are a number of reasons for that. First of all, historically there has
been more focus on protecting the organisation instead of the remote
user. As an example, organisations have deployed more and more
sophisticated network security components such as next-gen firewalls
and anti-malware solutions, which typically inspect network traffic within
the organisation.
However, users take their laptops home, they are vulnerable as they are
outside of this protection. From a technical standpoint, we have been
able to address this for a number of years by backhauling remote users’
traffic to the headquarters via VPN but organisations today are still
worried about user experience and bandwidth consumption.
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