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Conducting Risk Prioritization and Remediation to

Combat Challenges in The Distributed Workforce

By Egon Rinderer, Global Vice President of Technology and Federal CTO, Tanium

Most agencies have successfully met initial telework surge requirements – putting the basics in place to
continue essential operations. Recent research found approximately 90 percent of federal employees
now telework and 76 percent feel they will be able to telework at least part-time in the future. With the
basics now in place, the next priority for every IT team is a careful assessment of cyber risks, current
protections, and what is needed to keep systems and data safe in an environment with exponentially
more endpoints in more places.

Data residing on endpoint devices operating beyond the agency network perimeter isn’t all that’s at risk–
if compromised, those devices can also be used by malicious actors to tamper with or steal sensitive data
on the agency’s enterprise network. As the number of devices outside of the protected network grows,
the attack surface expands and risk increases.

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