Today, organizations face more distributed workforces than ever, spanning not just internal teams but also contractors and freelancers. Securing work between these different kinds of employees across numerous locations introduces security challenges. Teams must stay productive while grappling with security measures such as site whitelisting, performance issues with remote virtual desktop access, and requirements like VPN solutions to access company resources.
This webinar will explore the challenges facing these companies, including the need to balance security and productivity. How can organizations make work seamless and productive while locking down sensitive data and applications from intruders?
Talking points will include:
- The biggest challenges facing companies supporting long-term distributed working practices
- What assets are most at risk in a remote working environment, why and how to protect them?
- What kinds of security mistakes did companies make when rushing to support remote work at the start of the pandemic, and what can we learn from them?
- What functionality do teams need in the long term to be truly productive?
- Ways to achieve both productivity and security in distributed work
- Security management techniques that can help mitigate those challenges
