Security News > 2020 > November > CISOs say a distributed workforce has critically increased security concerns

73% of security and IT executives are concerned about new vulnerabilities and risks introduced by the distributed workforce, Skybox Security reveals.

Surveying 295 global executives, the report found that organizations are overconfident in their security posture, and new strategies are needed to secure a long-term distributed workforce.

Key observations Deprioritized security tasks increase risk: Over 30% of security executives said software updates and BYOD policies were deprioritized.

Enterprises can't keep up with the pace: 32% had difficulties validating if network and security configurations undermined security posture.

Security teams are overconfident in security posture: Only 11% confirmed they could confidently maintain a holistic view of their organizations' attack surfaces.

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