There is a stark contrast between Indian organisations’ plans for a hybrid work model and the reality of securing it, according to the findings of a recent study published by cybersecurity firm Tenable.
The global study revealed that 71 per cent of organisations in India attribute recent business-impacting cyberattacks to vulnerabilities in technology put in place in response to the pandemic.
The data is drawn from ‘Beyond Boundaries: The Future of Cybersecurity in the New World of Work’, a commissioned study of more than 1,300 security leaders, business executives and remote employees worldwide, including 92 responses in India, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Tenable.
Culture shift
As per the report, 80 per cent of Indian organisations plan to have employees working from home at least once a week in the next 12-24 months, while 63 per cent plan to make a permanent move to remote work over the next two years.
However, 53 per cent of security and business leaders showed concerns that their organisations are only somewhat or not at all prepared to secure their workforce strategy.
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