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Hybrid Working Is Changing How We Think

About Security

By Prakash Mana, CEO, Cloudbrink

Security will continue to head the list of priorities for CISOs in 2024, but how we secure our enterprises
will need rethinking in the face of the workplace revolution.
No, this isn’t another article about AI, but about the hybrid workplace.

The pandemic didn’t create hybrid working, but it massively accelerated trends that were already in play
turning what had been a steady movement into a revolution. The IT firefighting that started in 2020 to
cope with the exodus of office users may have ceased as the Covid crisis becomes a fading memory,
but the issues haven’t gone away. The first 100% digital workforce of GenZ’s and millennials continue to
demand a certain level of workplace freedom.

Around half the white-collar workforce now works away from corporate offices for at least two days a
week. This has profound implications for IT:

• Remote users are harder and more expensive to manage and support than office-based staff

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