Security News > 2020 > July > How IT leaders were unprepared for the security challenges posed by COVID-19
A report published Wednesday by security firm Tanium describes how IT leaders were surprised by the security threats and challenges they've had to face in the wake of COVID-19.
A full 96% admitted that they were caught off guard by the security challenges that arose within the first two months of the lockdown.
A full 93% of the respondents said they had to cancel or postpone certain security priorities to deal with the shift to remote working.
To deal with the ongoing impact, most IT leaders plan to combat the most critical challenges of supporting a remote workforce.
Further, as employees start to return to the office, IT leaders are eyeing greater focus on endpoint management to increase the visibility of IT assets, improvements to patch management, cloud computing to decentralize IT, and zero trust models to reduce the reliance on VPNs. "The almost overnight transition to remote work forced changes for which many organizations were unprepared," Tanium's chief information security officer, Chris Hodson, said in a press release.