Why A Distributed Workforce Needs Distributed Security
Cisco News, Friday, April 25th, 2025
For anyone in the tech industry, when we hear 'transformation' our mind automatically places 'digital' before it. However, in recent years, the traditional workplace has also been undergoing a significant transformation of its own.
Technology has enabled our transition to remote and mobile work, but in doing so has introduced a new set of challenges in how we securely connect our employees to the applications they require.
Decentralizing security to keep up with hybrid work's evolution
The peak pandemic years that pushed this movement to its hilt are behind us, yet the remote work era is hardly over. Despite return-to-office mandates from the federal level to prominent diversified multinational brands like Amazon, employees continue to be highly distributed. According to a recent survey from Pew Research Center, 75% of adults employed in a job that allows remote work take advantage of that and work remotely at least some of the time.