Ten Considerations for Evaluating Zero Trust Network Access Solutions

Even before the pandemic, the lines between office and home life had begun to blur. In 2019, ESG research found that employees spent an average of six hours per week doing work-related tasks outside of office hours, with 68% of respondents indicating that this occurred multiple times per week.1 Most commonly, this involved something simple, such as checking email, though some employees regularly worked outside of the office, necessitating remote access to corporate applications and resources. However, the scale of this dynamic fundamentally changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, ESG research has found that an average of 61% of employees now work remotely, more than three times the number prior to the pandemic.