BYOPC Security and SASE At the Peak
“CISOs and security leaders should expect the need to support BYOPC to be dependent upon a long-term work-from-home strategy, and also expect to support security tools needed for a BYOPC environment,” said Mr. Smith. “They need to prioritize their security practices, including enabling multifactor authentication (MFA) for all access to any corporate resource regardless if virtual or not, and if cloud or on-premises. Organizations must contain all cloud application data and disallow local storage or upload of local data from any BYOPC device as this could infect the cloud system. They also need to virtualize access to any traditional on-premises application.”
As BYOPCs are often infected with malware or ransomware and fall victim to phishing attacks, IT must limit and control access by offsetting the PC hardware investment with critical security technologies such as MFA, cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA), virtual desktop infrastructure, and desktop as a service.
“Without investment in these technologies, IT faces a much higher potential cost in the form of ransomware,” said Mr. Smith. “It is also critical that IT works with HR, legal, and workers councils to develop a proper work-from-home policy.”
Also, at the peak this year, SASE allows any endpoint to access any application over any network in a protected manner. SASE delivers multiple capabilities such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, CASB, next-generation firewall and ZTNA.
“Although SASE is relatively new, the COVID-19 pandemic has fostered the need for business continuity plans that include flexible, anywhere, anytime, secure remote access, at scale, even from untrusted devices,” said Joe Skorupa, distinguished research vice president at Gartner. “As SASE services are cloud-native — dynamically scalable, globally accessible, multitenant and including zero trust network access, they are driving its rapid adoption. Over the last three months, SASE has been adopted by more than 40% of global remote workers.”
SASE enables I&O and security teams to deliver a rich set of secure networking and security services in a consistent and integrated manner to support the needs of digital business transformation, edge computing and workforce mobility. “Mobile workforce, contractor access and edge computing applications that are latency sensitive are three likely opportunities,” said Mr. Skorupa.
*Note to Editors:
Bring your own PC (BYOPC) is an endpoint deployment strategy that allows employees to use a personally selected and purchased client device to execute enterprise applications and access company services and data.
Gartner clients can read more in the report “Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2020.” This research is part of the Gartner Special Report “2020 Hype Cycle Special Report: Innovation as Strategy.” This research collection helps organizations identify opportunities that enable the creation of new business and operating models.
Additional detailed analysis on the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2020 is available in the Gartner webinar “The 5 Major Trends of Gartner's 2020 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle.”
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