Security News > 2021 > June > "IT burden" and cybersecurity "trade-offs" take center stage in a new digital collaboration survey
On Tuesday, software company AvePoint released the results of a U.K. survey identifying the virtual collaboration challenges, IT burden and more.
Virtually all respondents companies believe "They are compliant with internal and external regulations" and few "Lacked confidence that their digital collaboration deployment was secure from data leaks and unauthorised access," according to the release.
A portion of the survey asked respondents to identify the "Biggest challenges" to their "Digital collaboration since the COVID-19 lockdown in March" using a list of possible answers and the ability to select multiple applicable responses.
Overall, 67% of respondents said that "Training users on new tools and ways of working" was the biggest challenge during this time period and 56% selected "Increased IT burden related to managing/servicing new collab tools," according to the survey ebook.
Since the initial lockdowns in March 2020, a similar number of respondents said that "Making new methods compliant" and "Securing remote network[s]" were the biggest digital collaboration challenges.
One-third of respondents selected "Securing external sharing" and one-quarter identified "Controlling access to digital workspaces/documents" as the biggest digital collaboration challenge.