06/10/2020

Study: Security Execs Had to Make Quick Decisions on Work-from-home Shift

The mixture of concerns is leading executives to take a close look at their budgets

There wasn’t a lot of time to shift gears when the COVID-19 crisis broke out in a big way—and that led to some tough decisions for tech execs as they tried to make sense of the new climate.

But with a sudden shift to 75 percent of employees working remote in 2020, according to Cybersecurity Insiders and Pulse Secure, executives needed a way to secure their employees, and ultimately, the solutions were very much off-the-shelf options, according to the companies’ 2020 Remote Work-From-Home Cybersecurity Report.

The study of 400-plus IT security decision makers found that more than half of respondents (54 percent) had less than a week to prepare, and a third weren’t sufficiently prepared for such a shift. That led to solutions such as antivirus/anti-malware (77 percent), firewalls (77 percent), virtual private networks (66 percent) and multifactor authentication (66 percent) finding quick use, according to the report.

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