Network administrators have long been stretched thin in their attempts to maintain global endpoint security settings, configurations, and patching. Now that most, if not all, of their organization’s employees are connecting remotely, the job has become even more difficult.
Once end-users move beyond the relative safety of their office buildings, they’re essentially out in the wild. They might be using their own devices rather than standard-issue machines to connect to the corporate network, and conforming to IT policies is probably not their highest priority right now. Perhaps their kids are playing on their devices, or maybe they are surfing the net in their downtime, taking corporate-maintained endpoints to new, potentially dangerous sites. And these are just some of the new complications IT administrators face on the end-user side. It becomes even more complex when you consider the implications of widespread remote connectivity on network performance.