Security News > 2020 > October > BlackBerry Security Summit 2020: Keynote focuses on COVID-19 and enhancing remote access security
BlackBerry CEO John Chen and the research director from Gartner's endpoint and operations security group delivered speeches at the opening keynote.
Ahead of the event, BlackBerry announced new security products and services including Cyber Suite and BlackBerry Persona Desktop.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the transition to remote work, data security, and scalability were all central to Chen's brief speech, before handing over the virtual stage to Rob Smith, research director from Gartner's endpoint and operations security group.
Smith similarly started by discussing the new challenges presented by COVID-19 and the transition to remote work Smith also emphasized the notion of the new normal of increased remote access.
"Prior to [the] pandemic, you might have had 5,000 employees, working from say five different offices, and that was pretty typical for a midsize enterprise. But now you have 5,000 offices, and this isn't going to change. We need to get the concept of remote working out of our mind and just start thinking about work. There is no more remote working, just simply working," he said.