Security News > 2022 > February > Rush to remote work left sysadmins struggling to keep businesses safe

Remotely announced the results of a survey that details the degree to which enterprises have been left vulnerable to disruption in the wake of the rush to remote work by millions of employees during the Covid pandemic.

Asked, "What are the biggest challenges you face as a remote IT team in keeping users safe and productive?" almost 33 percent of respondents said, "Keeping users secure, daily." That's because 67.49 percent said they're mired in the minutiae of provisioning services and apps, managing user identities, wrangling employees who have ignored best IT practices, and helping onboard new employees while trying to navigate the biggest and fastest physical workplace shift in decades.

Rapid shift to remote work left enterprises vulnerable.

"In the modern computing era, nothing has been more seismically disruptive to companies than the shift to remote work over the past two years." said Tyler Rohrer, CEO, Remotely.

"Think about it: early in the pandemic, over the span of only two months, most of the corporate world left the office and was forced to dial into their networks. This left IT and systems admins scrambling just to keep the lights on, never mind ensuring the resilience of their networks' security, which has also come under unprecedented assault. That was two years ago, and since then sysadmins are still forced into an untenable choice of keeping users productive, or the company safe."

"Automation of the mundane jobs that are keeping sysadmins away from the important work of ensuring their networks are secure is the best way to meet this new world order challenge."

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/02/02/enterprises-vulnerable-remote-work/