It’s Time to Address the Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Cybersecurity warriors are in short supply these days. According to (ISC)2, 2.8 million professionals work in cybersecurity globally, but the industry would need another 4 million trained workers—500,000 in the U.S. alone—in order to properly defe… Continue reading It’s Time to Address the Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Open Access to the internet with Protection

Secure Remote Worker Use Case 3: URL Filtering, SaaS Access Control, and Visibility
A cloud-based secure web gateway (SWG) gives cybersecurity teams complete visibility and control over traffic that bypasses the VPN. Consider these two use cases.
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Security and Visibility When Users Are Not in the Office

Secure Remote Worker Use Case 2: Security and Visibility of Data and Traffic
As we now accept the new norm, combating malicious cyberthreats comes down to two things: visibility and control. If you can monitor traffic flowing to and from users&#82… Continue reading Security and Visibility When Users Are Not in the Office

Mitigating Threats Associated with Downloading Files in Native File Format

File-based threats are occurring with greater frequency and higher success rates as threat actors have continued to hone and adapt their social engineering and spearphishing skills to fit today’s trends, such as cloud transformation. Conside… Continue reading Mitigating Threats Associated with Downloading Files in Native File Format

Mitigating Threats Associated with Downloading Files in Native File Format

File-based threats are occurring with greater frequency and higher success rates as threat actors have continued to hone and adapt their social engineering and spearphishing skills to fit today’s trends, such as cloud transformation. Conside… Continue reading Mitigating Threats Associated with Downloading Files in Native File Format

Fast User Access to SaaS for Users on Home Wi-Fi

Secure Remote Worker Use Case 1: Ensure Fast, Secure Access to SaaS Platforms
Even before Covid-19 forced the adoption of work-from-home policies across the globe, the workforce had been getting more remote, more distributed, and more dependent on… Continue reading Fast User Access to SaaS for Users on Home Wi-Fi

Time to Rethink How You Provide Secure Internet Access for Remote Workers

In my last blog , I explored how the COVID-19 global pandemic has accelerated the future of work. Literally overnight, the population of remote employees at most organizations went from 10 percent to 100 percent of the workforce. This has put… Continue reading Time to Rethink How You Provide Secure Internet Access for Remote Workers

Is COVID-19 Going to Accelerate the Future of Work?

Literally overnight, COVID-19 fundamentally changed the way we work. The future of work was always going to be remote, based in the cloud, and mobile. Trends were heading that way even before hundreds of millions of workers were ordered to shelter… Continue reading Is COVID-19 Going to Accelerate the Future of Work?

SaaS Adoption Eliminates Visibility Into and Control Over Users’ Web Browsing Behavior

We’ve been talking a lot recently about how changing work habits will disrupt enterprise security in 2020. Workers are becoming increasingly mobile, and enterprises continue to move mission-critical systems to the cloud. The problem is that … Continue reading SaaS Adoption Eliminates Visibility Into and Control Over Users’ Web Browsing Behavior

2020 Will Be the Year That SaaS Breaks Enterprise Security

There’s no doubt that the web is now the most important business tool for users. Critical systems such as ERP, CRM, collaboration and communication platforms, customer-facing apps, and other business tools that were once on-prem are moving t… Continue reading 2020 Will Be the Year That SaaS Breaks Enterprise Security