The widespread shift to remote working brought on by the pandemic was the last nail in the coffin for traditional perimeter-based cybersecurity.
According to Microsoft’s 2022 Work Trend Index, the number of people working in a hybrid way across the world is up seven percentage points on 2021 at 38%. And the trend is set to increase. Less than half (44%) of business leaders in the UK say their company is planning to require employees to work in-person, full-time within the next year.
Now, workers are using cloud apps as standard and accessing sensitive data and systems from a huge variety of locations, devices, and networks. They’re no longer ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ the perimeter – they are the perimeter. That means security has to go with them, wherever they are.
Where users go, security must go also
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