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Post COVID-19 Cybersecurity and Future-of-Work

Predictions

By DivvyCloud by Rapid7, Chris DeRamus, VP of Technology, Cloud Security Practice

Remote work is here to stay:

“Some organizations (including DivvyCloud) preferred coming into the office for work prior to the
pandemic because we enjoyed the sense of community. But, the current situation has changed our
outlook on remote work, and the same is true for many organizations around the world. Many companies
are quickly realizing their employees are just as productive working from home through cloud apps and
services as they are in the office space. In fact, in many cases employees are even more productive
because they don’t waste time commuting. As such, we should expect plenty of organizations to transition
to more frequent (or even permanent) remote work models once stay-at-home orders have been lifted.
Organizations may even reduce or eliminate office spaces to cut back on overhead costs , especially
those looking to climb out of economic hardship caused by the pandemic.”

To support remote work, organizations will need to prioritize cloud spend:

“Organizations have been spending more on cloud infrastructure to support their remote workforces.
Increased demand spurred AWS’ sales to surpass $10 billion this past quarter and Azure is running out
of capacity in some regions. As a result, organizations will need to “tighten the operational belt” from a
budget perspective and ensure that the proper security and governance controls, virtual desktop
infrastructure (VDIs), and other key instances are implemented.

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