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UNIFIED REMOTE ACCESS SECURITY AND THE PERFORMANCE PEOPLE LOVE WITH PRISMA ACCESS

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It’ s time for a better approach.

Hybrid work is here to stay despite return-to-office mandates.

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Hybrid work and infrastructures offer greater flexibility. They can enable workers to stay productive no matter if they’ re in the office, in the field, in transit, or at home. Hybrid infrastructures can allow organizations space to benefit from the agility, scalability, and resiliency of the cloud – at their own pace.

To power that flexibility, enterprises need network connectivity that’ s as flexible as the business models they support. They also need to secure those connections and safeguard the people, data, and other resources that interact across highly distributed organizations.

Many traditional connectivity approaches – like VPNs – fall short of delivering the performance, security, and ease of management that modern enterprises require.

In 2023:

• 5 in 10 worked hybrid

• 3 in 10 worked exclusively remotely

• 2 in 10 worked entirely on-site

An outdated security solution.

Virtual private networks, or VPNs, have been around for decades and are widely used to provide remote employees secure connectivity to organizational data and resources.

In the mid-1990s, when VPNs were invented, the need for remote connectivity looked very different than it does today. Only a small fraction of employee populations needed remote access since most of the work happened in the office. Productivity was tied to apps and data residing on-premises in data centers within each office. �

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