Once again, MSSPs are ideally suited to identify and address these issues.
With no end to COVID-19 in sight, 85% of executives predict their organizations will feel the negative effects of the pandemic for months. Most (70%) say successfully implementing long-term home IT for remote workers will prove difficult for three main reasons. They are compliance regulations (26%); cybersecurity risk management (25%); and balancing employee privacy with cyber risk mitigation (19%). That’s all according to another in a series of vendor-commissioned reports, this one from Tanium, which provides unified endpoint management and security.
Of course, those challenges come on top of those IT leaders already were trying to untangle before the pandemic hit.
For example, 71% of IT departments said that, every week, they were finding IT assets they didn’t know about or have in their inventories. IT ends up paying for items it doesn’t know it owns, which affects budgets. It also misses the opportunity to secure these devices and applications, which exposes the organization to more threats. Indeed, most IT chiefs (53%) cited this last gap as a primary concern, according to…
