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The report details the impact of COVID-19, IT's chief concerns about new spending decisions, the impact remote work had on security best practices, and overall satisfaction within the IT organization.

"Remote work put enormous pressure on admins and organizations, and now that the work landscape has changed permanently, the top priority for SMEs is to address those challenges. IT professionals' 2021 priorities of layered security for more secure work-from-anywhere, making remote work easier, and more efficient device management underscore the need for a more consolidated, platform approach to IT that reduces complexities and cost."

The impact on IT Remote work, security and cloud are priorities: IT budgets will prioritize three things in the coming year: remote management, security, and cloud services.

Remote work hurt security best practices: The study found that 74% said remote work makes it harder for employees to follow good security practices.

Managing remote workers is the biggest challenge: Managing remote workers is the biggest challenge IT admins faced over the past year.

Remote work security practices and concerns Wasting money on managing users' identities: 62% say they pay for more tooling than they need to manage user identities and 56% of respondents said they are spending too much to enable remote work.

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