THE GLOBAL REMOTE WORK EXPERIMENT
Since March , countries around the world have been forced into varying degrees of lockdown and social distancing measures in order to combat the ongoing spread of COVID- 19 . Enterprises have responded by entering into what amounts to the largest social and economic experiment with remote work in history . A number of companies have seen productivity increase , employees have felt their worklife balance shift to a better place , and many organisations have changed their previous stance on working from home permanently . The world that COVID-19 leaves behind will be one of more distributed workforces and increasingly digitalised operations . However , this has presented a problem for many enterprise security teams . They have found the number of endpoints with access to their system doubling , as more people use personal devices for workrelated activities ; employees logging on using unsecured networks and devices ; increased network load ; all present an increasingly difficult challenge for enterprise security teams . This is where Netskope comes in . “ The crisis has been a great opportunity for Netskope to help our customers make a very rapid transition toward remote work . Obviously we ’ re helping them better understand and protect their data , but our platform also brings zero-trust capabilities to the table , which has been a technology that has really increased in prominence over the past six months . We ’ ve been a player in that space for quite some time and can provide very flexible and adaptable zero-trust capabilities to our customers . It ’ s been great to be able to help them respond to their needs in such a short space of time ,” says Fairman .
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