Chris Preimesberger4
Tossup for everyone:
Q1: Where do you see the most progress in development of current WFH software, hardware and services?
Q1: Where do you see the most progress in development of current WFH software, hardware and services?
Gorka Sadowski
A1 - That's a great question. I think the current WFH situation is really a forcing point for everyone to understand 1) how to measure work productivity, and 2) how to secure people as an attack channel.
Vineet Jain
A1. Remote work is driving more data sprawl than ever before – we heard from our customers - 67% of IT executives are concerned about unstructured data sprawl, and more than half say remote work is the main culprit.
David Gewirtz
(moving this into the thread) A1: You know, I'd actually say it's something else: acceptance of working from home. WFH has always been a bit of a fringe activity, but now with COVID, acceptance has gone through the roof.
Daniel Graves
A1: I think the most progress has come from a new workplace philosophy. WFH used to be for a subset of work - some workers, some projects, some tasks. Now, companies need to enable all employees, partners, and customers to do everything online.
David Gewirtz
But Gorka is right, the security issue is also a big concern.
Gorka Sadowski
A1 - There has always been -some- WFH, bu the sheer scale of that today, and how organizations have to embrace it is really the difference. Along with the Cloud, it is really the final nail in the coffin of the "security perimeter" as an architectural approach to security.
Vineet Jain
A1. To have more control, data goverance policies getting enforced without getting "in the way" is key. Further, getting the content management architecture right is key. examples files sitting on unsecured devices, data loss, and mismanaged permissions.
David Gewirtz
A1: As for the big tech winner, that has to be video conferencing, and Zoom in particular.
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David Gewirtz
A1: It used to be that getting an exec to do a video interview required long discussion of how to hook up a webcam and get enough bandwidth. Now, webcam use and conferencing is a basic required skill. And that's just in the last 12 months.
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Daniel Graves
A1b: And so the enterprise approach has shifted from a technical approach to enabling remote *workers* (VPN etc.), to a digital approach to enable remote *work* for all parties. A lot more energy on workflow, automation, and overall efficiency.
Vineet Jain
A1. The attack surface has grown exponentially, so even basic things like hardening your routers, keeping anti-virus upto date, centralizing content in one "logically unified" silo are some of the means to meet the security challenges
David Gewirtz
A1: Inside the firewall threat has grown as well. WFH means working with roommates and family, and some of them may not be benign presences on the home network.
Vineet Jain
@DavidGewirtz Could not agree more
Gorka Sadowski
A1 -- Zoom because a verb during Covid, and that is despite all the incumbents and alternatives, Webex, Skype, FaceTime etc etc. Maybe because of the UX?
Chris Preimesberger
Good point, Gorka. When a product becomes a verb, you know you're probably on the right track ... ;-)
Gorka Sadowski
A1 -- it's funny how people and organizations started preferring a relatively unknown vendor (Zoom) with unknown security to more established vendors... just for the name of convenience, some cool backgrounds and filters, and a generally better use experience.
Chris Preimesberger
@db_graves Sidebar for you, Daniel: How can Delphix's DataOps approach be used in this office-to-home desk new world? Is this something the company is working on?
