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Prey Software Report Finds 43.13% of workers will stay remote after the pandemic endsSAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prey Inc., provider of the cross-platform, open source anti-theft & management software that protects more than eight million mobile devices, today announced the results of a new study, Status of the Remote Work Cyber Security Landscape 2021, which finds that 43.13% of workers will stay remote after the pandemic ends and that two out of three IT professionals are concerned with endpoint misuse. The report examines the remote work challenges generated by the pandemic year and the number of people working from home far from corporate environments, on insecure networks, in many cases sharing with other unsafe devices in their homes. Read the free report: Prey Shift Report: Status of the Remote Work Cyber Security Landscape 2021 “As the pandemic hit in early 2020, organizations had to cope with the new reality of a remote workforce,” said Norman Gutiérrez, Cybersecurity Researcher, Prey Software. “Our survey found a whopping 75 percent were unprepared for this rapid shift and that endpoint security had become one of their top priorities.” Remote Work Presents IT Challenge In this new remote environment, IT professionals surveyed worry about the lack of IT infrastructure to allocate resources to suddenly remote workers, followed by employees using third-party software, increasingly overwhelmed IT staff, and not having enough devices for everyoe. Lack of budget is a big concern too, as well as dated infrastructure and IT personnel without the necessary experience. Of the IT professionals surveyed for The Prey report:
Endpoint Security Accordingly, the Prey report finds:
Identity & Access Management are a necessity for more than half of the surveyed organizations as well. Software Management sits right in the middle, a necessary evil in a remote world. Backup and Web Filtering are in dead last, only relevant to a third of surveyed professionals. Methodology Read more about the Prey Shift Report: https://preyproject.com/resources/ebooks/shift/ About Prey Inc. Media Contact A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/a71d7191-5576-4492-a009-2a3e6401ad59 |