Even before the advent of the covid-19 pandemic the Work-from-home (WFH) and work-from-anywhere (WFA) industry movements were trending. Globally, CISOs were already looking to enable greater workforce agility and improve workplace flexibility. When the pandemic started, WFH/WFA quickly became the top priority for enterprises worldwide. Security and networking teams were then, and still are now, required to expeditiously onboard a plethora of remote workers—severely straining traditional VPN deployments designed to connect only a small fraction of employees. At the same time these teams had to, and must always, continue to protect against increasingly aggressive malware and ransomware threats. Employee home networks, being generally less safe, enable lucrative launching points for ransomware infections that lead to existential threats to companies.
Even as the world slowly returns to normal, CISOs continue to be tasked with enabling secure multi-location access: on-campus networks, large physical locations, branch offices, employee homes, and across a mesh of worldwide public Wi-Fi and mobile networks.
Hillstone Networks has served CISOs well with a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions to ensure business protection—from the edge of the enterprise to core data centers. To meet the new access challenges posed by the enterprise’s network edge becoming virtual and software-defined rather than a physical border around buildings, Hillstone is expanding its edge solutions suite to incorporate zero-trust
network access (ZTNA).
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