The top five ways to secure a remote workforce

While most companies understand there are infinite ways to improve security, here are the top ways that every organization should be exploring as they seek to secure their newly remote workforce. A recent Gallup poll shows a whopping 26% of the American workforce working from home full time in the summer of 2020. While it remains to be seen how many of these employees go back into an office environment full time, additional research has shown that nearly 40% of US jobs can be done from home. It is clear that remote work is here to stay. While the benefits of remote work are countless in terms of productivity, talent retention, office space expenses, employee health, etc., the exposure to security risk has gone up immensely. Cyber criminal activity has spiked this year as the attack surface expanded and many companies scrambled to support a massive increase in remote workers. While most companies understand there are infinite ways to improve security, here are the top ways that every organization should be exploring as they seek to secure their newly remote workforce. To secure a remote workforce, organizations must layer a number of different approaches upon each other. Each layer covers another attack vector and helps to reduce the risk from the changes that remote work brings. While still in its early phases of adoption, emerging security architectures such as secure access service edge (SASE) seek to combine many of these approaches into a single architecture. By combining elements of networking and security, SASE attempts to consolidate and modernize infrastructure in a way that provides a better experience for both administrators and end users. As remote work becomes less of a novelty and more ubiquitous, securing these new users through either a holistic or piecemeal approach will be important going forward. — Joe Gleinser, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Trustgrid About the Author Joe Gleinser, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Trustgrid Joe is the Chief Product Officer of Trustgrid and a seasoned technology executive with experience in growing technology product and service organizations in highly competitive markets. Prior to Trustgrid, he co-founded and led GCS Technologies, a managed service provider in Austin, Texas. GCS has been featured in the Inc 5000, ABJ Fast 50, and was twice named a ChannelPro 20/20 Visionary.