In the age of the gig economy, companies have to adapt a more distributed workforce in order to stay competitive and continue to grow. Therefore remote access to enterprise resources is an important requirement for the distributed and outsourced nature of modern work. 

Traditionally, enabling remote access to an internal network or private cloud has been a high risk decision. The typical problems are password or access key re-use and sharing by contractors, poor or no internal network segmentation, limited visibility into what resources get accessed by who, when, from which devices and whether those devices are compromised or infected.

Outsourcer devices that are compromised could be a launching pad into your organization and contractor devices that are infected could propagate malware like WannaCry to your internal systems causing financial damage.

Incumbent remote access technologies like VPN and RDP are only exacerbating the problem. They are insecure, slow, hard to deploy and do not meet the usability, security and compliance needs of the leading companies.

It is high time for a paradigm shift!