More than a quarter of security leaders in the UK say remote-working employees either circumvented or purposely turned off security tools and services, and a third admit compromising their organisation’s security to some degree in order to facilitate the practice, according to newly published data from Palo Alto Networks.
The firm’s latest report, The state of hybrid workforce security 2021, includes input from 3,000 information security, network operations and application development professionals around the world in an attempt to understand how the shift to remote work impacted network security infrastructure, and how the past 18-20 months have affected network security strategies as regards protecting home workers.
Of the UK-based respondents, 35% tended to agree that remote security measures had introduced “significant productivity challenges” for remote employees, and 16% strongly agreed with this statement. As a result, 31% said employees were ignoring security measures, and 28% said they were disabling or circumventing them in some way.
UK IT leaders also tended to agree that remote security measures introduced significant management costs and/or overheads…
