Security News > 2021 > March > IT leaders adapting to new challenges by prioritizing collaboration, cloud and security

Over the past twelve months, CIOs and ITDMs from across the globe have been challenged to accelerate their digital and cloud capabilities while protecting their organizations from a growing list of expanding security threats.

To set up their organizations for success in 2021 and beyond, IT leaders have adapted priorities and strategy to focus on core issues including delivering secure collaboration tools to keep distributed workforces productive, maximizing technology investments from the past year, delivering the best end-use experience to employees and customers, embracing cloud and "As a Service," and tackling corporate and societal issues with technology.

"Even as questions remain and new challenges will surface, CIOs and IT decision makers are telling us they need to accelerate digital agility for their teams, so they have the speed, flexibility and choice to consume services across both traditional and modern environments."

Agility, speed, scalability and security driving adoption of hybrid cloud and SASE. The need for agility, speed, scalability and security is driving adoption of hybrid cloud environments and SASE solutions.

While 84% of CIOs and ITDMs agree it is important to offer freedom of choice when it comes to cloud environments - whether on premises, public cloud, private cloud or SaaS - 86% think offering a consistent operational model across these environments is essential.

Nearly 70% of CIOs and ITDMs have adopted SASE solutions because they were investing in cloud applications that needed to be secured, they like to stay up-to-date on industry best practices and/or their workforce is going to stay distributed.

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