Security News > 2022 > September > Businesses find remote work security risks less daunting than before
After two years of the pandemic, confidence in addressing certain security risks and threats arising from hybrid and remote work has improved among businesses and organizations around the world.
"The past few years have cemented remote work and work-from-anywhere as a permanent part of the security landscape, and they have also introduced new security risks and challenges. However, growing familiarity with remote work has ultimately broadened awareness on an enterprise level of daily business security risks and has strengthened both confidence and ability in security teams and products to handle those risks and threats properly," said Francois Lasnier, VP of Access Management Solutions at Thales.
Overall, the report findings suggest that firms remain concerned about the security risks of remote work, but those concerns seem to be less severe.
Only 31% of IT professional surveyed reported having "Very high" concerns about the security risks and threats of remote work in 2022, down from 39% in 2021, while those who said they were "Somewhat concerned" - the most popular response - increased from 43% to 48% in 2022.
Access management, MFA and ZTNA. The survey inquired about direct impacts that the pandemic and remote work had on deployment plans for new access security technologies.
In 2022, ZTNA was the second choice at 42%. Garrett Bekker, Principal Analyst at 451 Research comments: "Just as the threat landscape has evolved, the tools and methods to handle the landscape have, too. However, even with innovative tools and boosted confidence levels, security plans and approaches still need to adapt to the ever-changing threat environment. A greater shift towards a Zero Trust model would place access management in a central role in corporate security strategies, with a related reliance on MFA as a critical supporting enabler."