By Sriram Kakarala

The pandemic-driven remote working brought about unforeseen challenges that the pre-pandemic corporate world would have never imagined. From transitioning to a work-from-home as a ‘perk’ to a ‘necessity’, the organizations had to realign their operations and do it fast, to keep the ships afloat.

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Now that the dust seems to have settled on the novelty of remote working, there’s no doubt that remote working- whether organizations like it or not is here to say. This raises the concerns of corporate data security in remote working that still stand as a key challenge that organizations are trying to navigate, workforce productivity being the second.

Organizations need to have critical business data made available to the employees that work remotely- and this could include the devices carefully vetted and secured with corporate policies and provided by the organization, but could also include the devices that are not under the organization’s purview.

Fragmentation dilemma 

The modern employees demand flexibility and you simply can’t prevent employees from accessing work emails on their phones while they surf the beach or hike the mountains- nor does it add to your organization’s overall efficiency and productivity.

But this, along with the hugely fragmented devices and endpoints used in the virtual working environment adds to the security risks that can not only drain out the IT teams but also the CIOs to a great extent.