Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform

More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” — after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a remote working boom. The 2017 founded […] Continue reading Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform

Protecting Collaboration Channels for Remote Work

As COVID-19 unfolded in the first half of 2020, many of us set out to explore its long-term ramifications and imagine what the ‘new normal’ could look like. We also wanted to understand the second- or third-order effects of remote working and accelera… Continue reading Protecting Collaboration Channels for Remote Work

Navigating Cybersecurity Gaps in Uncertain Times

If cybersecurity leaders and teams think this year will be quieter and easier than 2020, they are mistaken. The remote work trend launched by COVID-19 is morphing into a new hybrid environment that has some employees working at home full time, others … Continue reading Navigating Cybersecurity Gaps in Uncertain Times

Navigating Cybersecurity Gaps in Uncertain Times

If cybersecurity leaders and teams think this year will be quieter and easier than 2020, they are mistaken. The remote work trend launched by COVID-19 is morphing into a new hybrid environment that has some employees working at home full time, others … Continue reading Navigating Cybersecurity Gaps in Uncertain Times

Smart IAM: The Key to Seamless Sign-Ons

In a connected, but still remote, world, employees are logging in from countless devices and locations. Behaviors that were once uncommon – like accessing the corporate network on multiple or personal devices – are commonplace today. Driven by the exp… Continue reading Smart IAM: The Key to Seamless Sign-Ons

How to Secure the Home Branch Office

Amid the pandemic, most workforces have shifted to remote work and home offices; essentially, transforming their living rooms into corporate branch offices. From a convenience and health perspective, this has worked well, for the most part. However, t… Continue reading How to Secure the Home Branch Office

What the IT world needs now: fast access to any app, anywhere, securely!

I’m writing this article in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, a year after we first left our offices and moved to remote work. While it has immediate implications on all of our lives – both physically and virtually – it also gives us a glimpse into the… Continue reading What the IT world needs now: fast access to any app, anywhere, securely!

McKinsey Predicts: Remote Work in the Finance and Insurance Sectors to Continue Growing

How Do You Plan to Keep Your Users Productive? A new report has been published by McKinsey, exactly one year after the start of the COVID19 crisis, examining current remote work in 9 countries, and what they expect to see in upcoming months and years. … Continue reading McKinsey Predicts: Remote Work in the Finance and Insurance Sectors to Continue Growing

4 Security Awareness Training Trends

The year 2020 was all about the pandemic. It pushed security teams to the edge, required creative problem-solving skills, great teamwork and investment and optimization of security tools. The year 2020 also showed organizations how important security … Continue reading 4 Security Awareness Training Trends

Remote Browser Isolation—Creating a Patch Buffer

The year 2020 was a very tough one for enterprises for many reasons. Perhaps one of the biggest reasons was that COVID-19 forced businesses and other organizations to make an almost overnight transition to remote work. On the other hand, cyber att… Continue reading Remote Browser Isolation—Creating a Patch Buffer