Security News > 2021 > April > How to address post-pandemic infrastructure pain points

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated trends that had slowly been changing businesses everywhere, transforming remote work from a perk to a necessity and sending even more of our data, applications, and day-to-day activities into the cloud.

The most obvious pain point that many organizations are working through is how to manage workforce transformation, specifically when it comes to authenticating and monitoring remote user identities.

If remote work took hold at that level, it would mean a three- to four-fold increase in the amount of people working from home as compared to before the pandemic.

On top of that, as businesses build new infrastructures that can accommodate and monitor permanently remote workers, they must be mindful of how certain regulations affect what personally identifiable information they can record about their own employees.

In a world where many of us are already working outside of the perimeter, zero trust is an important way for IT and security teams to reconfigure and reassess pre-pandemic infrastructure and assumptions.

Working through any one of those changes would be challenging enough - together, they amount to major security and infrastructure priorities for us all.

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