Gartner: Securing remote workforce a top priority
After Gartner re-examined its 2020 forecast in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, analysts now recommend securing the remote workforce as a top priority for enterprises.
Several sessions at Gartner’s 2020 Security and Risk Management Summit featured pandemic- related topics, including Monday’s presentation, titled “Top Projects for 2020-2021,” with Gartner senior director and analyst Brian Reed, which outlined how organizations can build projects to secure remote workers. Other sessions included “The Future of Endpoint Management and Security in a Post-COVID-19 World” with Gartner research director Rob Smith.
Gartner research vice president Roberta Witty discussed adaptability in a session titled “COVID-19 as a Resilience Game Changer: How the World Will Never Be the Same.” During Witty’s session, she said “according to The World Economic Forums April report, the impacts of COVID have changed the global risk outlook.”
Analysts agree that with COVID-19 came a spike in cyberthreat activity. While there are several focus points such as patch management, password security, detection and response platforms and cloud security, remote access for employees is the area that needs to be addressed first.