Whether the business world was ready for it or not, COVID-19 provided the accelerant for organizations of all shapes and sizes to embrace the era of remote work. Almost overnight, the pandemic also forced these organizations to pivot their users and applications to the cloud in order to continue seamless business operations. Securing this new work environment quickly became an essential mandate to ensure a truly safe online experience and keep the business moving forward.
Tags: funding, SWG, VPN Off load, VPN, secure web gateway, seamless business operations
Not every financial service institution (FSI) is the size of a global bank with hundreds of thousands of workers. Frequently, boutique investment firms, insurance providers, and regional or local banks have only a fraction of the workers of their larger counterparts.
Tags: financial services, remote access, VPN, split tunneling, FSI
The past six months have been a whirlwind of change. Security teams across the world have scrambled to empower distributed users with the tools and information they need to keep businesses running. Now everyone is accessing everything from everywhere, with limited control and visibility into who is accessing what, where, and on what device.
Tags: cybersecurity, phishing, spearphishing, cyberattacks, Web Security, HTTPS, SaaS, cloud security, VPN, email security, new normal, cloud apps, BYOD
Today’s workers have been flung to the far reaches of the Internet, forcing them to log in and gain access to critical business applications and data in the cloud from unsecured residential and public Internet connections. Understandably, this lack of control and visibility is keeping cybersecurity professionals up at night, wondering whether data is being exposed on the edge of this new network architecture.
Tags: cybersecurity, security, Cloud DLP, SWG, VPN, split tunneling, data loss prevention, data visibility, remote application access
A cloud-based secure web gateway (SWG) gives cybersecurity teams complete visibility and control over traffic that bypasses the VPN. Consider these two use cases.
Tags: malware, phishing, security, spear-phishing, DLP, cloud-delivered security, visibility and control, URL filtering, VPN, SaaS access, remote users, acceptable use policies
As we now accept the new norm, combating malicious cyberthreats comes down to two things: visibility and control. If you can monitor traffic flowing to and from users’ devices and control how that traffic behaves and is secured, a malicious actor would be hard pressed to infiltrate your network and do harm.
Tags: phishing, security, HTTS, HTTPS, SSL Inspection, DLP, cloud-delivered security, visibility and control, security policies, URL filtering, VPN, secure web gateway
