To effectively manage business continuity, enterprises are rapidly working to support a remote workforce, which has become a "New Normal" way of working remotely. While each one of us fights against the pandemic, businesses are making sure that employees and vendors are working as usual from home, like working from the office. It has brought many service providers and technology vendors to collaborate to build an agile solution which will help organisations to rapidly activate their remote workforce.
Technology vendors have released digital workspace (virtual desktop infrastructure – VDI) solutions, which provide prompt activation of services. Often, while rapidly enabling a turnkey solution to allow a remote workforce, security controls are missed, which increases the risk to a business. While organisations are busy enabling remote working using digital workspace environment, many security challenges with limited control are introduced.
Cyberattacks have moved on from traditional techniques and have become more targeted and sector-specific. Attackers are operating in stealth mode, making attribution of attacks more difficult.
Today’s Cyber defenses are focused on defending unchanging (sprawling, distributed, & untrusted) infrastructure by monitoring, detecting, preventing and remediating threats.
The healthcare industry is shifting focus to personalized preventive care and an increasing number of patients are expecting healthcare to be delivered as a service.