1 Introduction / Executive Summary
The future of work requires collaboration with third parties, evidenced by the increasing reliance on third-party contractors, vendors, suppliers, and other external personnel to support key operations, often from remote locations. This comes in addition to the already strong presence of internal employees who work from anywhere. This shift brings both opportunities and challenges, particularly when it comes to ensuring secure access to sensitive data and critical IT infrastructure. To maintain productivity and collaboration while safeguarding corporate assets, businesses must take a modern approach to remote access management that accounts for the diverse needs of external users and the complex environments in which they operate.
The future of work requires collaboration with third parties, and flexibility to support the internal workforce that is spread across the world. To maintain productivity and collaboration while safeguarding corporate assets, business must take a modern approach to remote and third-party access management that accounts for the diverse needs of those users.
The increased reliance on cloud-based infrastructure and hybrid working models has rendered traditional remote access technologies like Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDIs) less effective. These tools were not designed to accommodate the security requirements and complexity of modern cloud-based and globally distributed organizations. These tools, traditionally used to address remote access, are becoming more and more unsuited to handle the current needs.
Fit-to-purpose solutions like ARCON’s Global Remote Access (GRA) utilize technology like secure web gateways that offer a robust set of security features, such as user authentication and authorization, data loss prevention (DLP), and advanced web filtering. The use cases to support internal administrative tasks for remote workers as well as facilitate third-party remote access demonstrates the flexible and secure means of supporting modern organizations manage their varied workforce.
