WFH Security ‘More Complex’ 19 Months Into Pandemic: Citrix

The cybercrime “attack surface” is larger than ever, with millions of employees still working from home, “in some cases using personal devices to access cloud apps and corporate resources,” a Citrix survey found. The company commissioned Sapio Research to canvass 1,250 security decision-makers in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany and the Netherlands, finding 74% say procedures and controls are becoming “more complex” as their organizations transition more permanently to remote and hybrid work. About an equal proportion said they're fighting to keep up with the increased volume of security threats that the remote-work models create, said Citrix Thursday. Nearly eight in 10 respondents said this pandemic created an opportunity to “completely rethink” long-term strategies to secure their networks without harming employees' experience, it said. But remote-work challenges abound, including poor connectivity (cited by 43% of respondents as a key hurdle), navigating technical problems virtually (34%) and workers’ inability to get tech support quickly or easily (32%).