Before embarking on any predictions, the first thing to say is a huge “hats off” to IT teams around the world. Their significant contribution to the recalibration of working life in 2020 saw whole organisations successfully transition to working from home full-time thanks to remote IT networks that were both secure and functional, thereby ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
And even with a vaccine being rolled out, working from home has been established as entirely possible, as well as desirable for many people, even when returning to the office en masse is an option. While the pandemic taught us that nothing can be taken for granted, after a year that raised the profile of “the techies”, it seems fairly safe to say that IT and IT security will play an increasingly visible role in business development in the next 12 months and beyond.
Facilitating safe remote working
Extensive numbers of the workforce operating from home potentially provides cyber criminals with a host of additional channels – virtual private networks (VPNs), Wi-Fi networks, cloud-based services, and so on – to exploit to gain access to sensitive data.
In this quest, they are…
