Cyber Security
Browsers Are Now the Workplace
Does thinking about it as the new end point change anything?
Editorial
Did your Security Leave the Office Too?
Beyond the perimeter lies a smarter way to secure work
We've spent the last few years endlessly redefining the workplace. Home became the office, the office became optional, and now everyone seems to have their own version of hybrid.
Security, however, doesn't get to choose—it has to protect every version. But it’s also moved in a virtual sense (partly because of remote working), in that more things now take place in the cloud, in browsers or on SaaS platforms rather than through applications and servers based on on-premise hardware.
This has been a huge positive for many businesses, which have been able to unlock new levels of efficiency and productivity, which the advent of AI has only helped accelerate. But for IT and security teams, it’s been an absolute nightmare.
Traditional security and governance controls weren’t designed for huge volumes of workflows and sensitive data flowing through browsers and SaaS products day after day. This is a serious problem for IT oversight: Gartner predicts that by 2027, three-quarters of employees will be deploying or modifying technology outside of IT’s purview.
But it also introduces some major potential security risks at the same time. Control over where data is stored and how it’s used is lost, credentials can easily become compromised (especially if employees use the same credentials across multiple SaaS tools), and fixing any vulnerabilities that may lie in those platforms is out of your hands.
This topic is sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, whose commitment to making enterprise-grade security accessible to mid-market organisations helped bring this discussion to the community.
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Topic sponsored by Palo Alto Networks, whose commitment to making enterprise-grade security accessible to mid-market organisations helped bring this discussion to the community.
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