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Security, not technology, will make or break hybrid working

Kill or cure? Jon Fielding wonders if the focus on technology, rather than security, in considering the future of hybrid working is misplaced

Jon Fielding, Managing Director, Apricorn EMEA

Dec 24, 2020

Combined home and office working will become ingrained as a long-term model over the coming year. Doing this securely and sustainably demands a major culture shift; every employee must be accountable for protecting corporate and personal data. In an ideal world IT teams would have visibility across the whole, now distributed, environment: who’s accessing systems, networks and applications, from where, and using which devices. With entire workforces ‘out in the wild’, however, this just isn’t possible, so greater responsibility for security needs to be read full article here