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Enterprise security challenges and increased cloud usage fueled by remote work
2021-09-28 03:30

81% of U.S.-based IT professionals believe that having remote workers has increased enterprise security challenges, while 74% acknowledge that their company's use of cloud solutions increased as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a ManageEngine report reveals.

To that end, 53% of U.S. respondents learned new remote worker support skills and 52% said that their organizations' remote worker support teams have increased their use of cloud solutions in the last year.

Increased security is still best for instilling cloud confidence 56% of respondents said that increased security would in turn increase their company's confidence in cloud solutions.

Increased performance and improved reliability closely follow security.

ITOps teams embrace the cloud, compliance teams resist Other than remote worker support teams, IT operations had the highest increased use of cloud solutions as well as data teams.

Conversely, disaster recovery and compliance teams had the lowest rate of adoption at 29% and 22%, respectively, suggesting that cloud solutions should improve their security function before seeing wide-spread adoption.


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