Fortinet has introduced an advanced solution to help organizations protect and connect their work-from-anywhere. By combining Fortinet’s extensive portfolio of zero trust, endpoint, and network security products into the Fortinet Security Fabric, Fortinet provides enterprise-grade protection, by delivering security, services, and threat intelligence that seamlessly follow users whether on the road, at home, or in the office. These capabilities, which is designed for the way business is done in the Work-from-Anywhere Era, are now available.
Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC at Fortinet said, “Empowering users to move seamlessly between different work environments has critical implications for maintaining user productivity as well as security. Cybercriminals have been quick to exploit the expanded attack surface and security gaps created by this shift in work patterns to get a foothold into the corporate network. Today’s enterprise organizations require work-from-anywhere security that is as flexible and dynamic as today’s business demands. Fortinet is the only vendor capable of delivering unified security built for the Work-from-Anywhere Era that seamlessly adapts based on a user’s environment and risk profile.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as the driving force behind the work-from-anywhere model’s rapid expansion. A forecast analysis from Gartner reveals, “by the end of 2024, the change in the nature of work will increase the total available remote worker market to 60% of all employees, up from 52% in 2020.” Also according to Gartner, “Organizations are facing a hybrid future, with 75% of hybrid or remote knowledge workers saying their expectations for working flexibly have increased.”
Simultaneously, multi-stage sophisticated attacks such as ransomware are wreaking havoc on businesses. Ransomware incidents surged approximately 1100 percent from June 2020 to June 2021, according to FortiGuard Labs’ 1H Global Threat Landscape Report. According to a recent worldwide ransomware survey by Fortinet, a staggering 67 percent of organizations have been victims of ransomware.
It’s obvious that remote and hybrid work has become the norm, and cybercriminals will continue to exploit this new attack surface. Enterprises must now take a “work-from-anywhere” approach to security to handle the shift in the workforce and threat landscape by deploying solutions capable of following, enabling, and protecting users no matter where they are located.