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For the past few years, companies have been gradually moving towards allowing more working at home. With the onset of the pandemic, however, many organizations jumped into the work-at-home model thinking it would be a temporary condition. But a hybrid model evolved that is increasingly being accepted by many as a permanent working condition.

Many organizations are not ready for a proper approach to security in a hybrid environment.

In many or most cases, they adopted a variety of tools and now have an average of 45 different security tools in place. They adopted a variety of point solutions while what they need is an integrated platform.

Moving to an integrated platform requires a consolidation of security resources and networks on the cloud but that can be unrealistic for a variety of reasons. Therefore they need to settle for an integration strategy to support diverse platforms and the hybrid workforce. Not an easy task. This article by Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, a Vice President in Fortinet’s global Field CISO team provides some excellent guidance on this issue.