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Nearly three-quarters of the U.S. workforce will be mobile workers by 2023, IDC predicts. With so many employees on the road at least part of the time, being able to access business critical applications remotely is key to the way we work — but also hard to secure.
In a recent study conducted by IDC for Akamai, more than half of respondents (56%) ranked security breaches as their greatest challenge around application access, even as they acknowledged that providing that level of access is an absolute necessity. Indeed, more than half the companies surveyed said every aspect of securing access is difficult, from managing mobile employees to onboarding and off-boarding contractors and partners.
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