The way we work has changed forever. Even prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, employees in a wide variety of roles and industries sought greater autonomy and flexibility in their work experiences. An alarmingly large percentage of workers reported feeling disengaged or unhappy in the workplace. According to global aggregate…

The events of 2020 — including office closures in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shift to remote work that they necessitated — were unexpected and unprecedented. Confronting such unfamiliar circumstances, most organisations had to improvise. By and large, the remote work strategies created in response to the pandemic…

Infrastructure as a service—also known as cloud infrastructure services—refers to a business model where cloud providers host space on their servers for others to store core computing, networking, and other resources. With IaaS, businesses and individual users rent infrastructure for their apps and operating systems on demand.  For organizations…

IT transformation over the past 15 months has reminded me of Mel Brook’s 1987 sci-fi parody movie ‘Spaceballs’. Stay with me here… In Spaceballs, our heroes escape the evil ‘Dark Helmet’ (gloriously portrayed by Rick Moranis) by fleeing his clutches at lightspeed.  Our bumbling villain has but one choice...he must chase after them at ‘ludicrous…

There were several reasons I chose to join Okta five months ago. Back in 2010, I witnessed Okta’s founders Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest gamble on a forward-thinking idea for cloud identity. Since then, Identity-as-a-Service has become a massive category that includes customer identity, workforce identity, and machine identity. Identity today…

It has been a tough year for information security teams. COVID-19 has completely redefined the cyber threat landscape and added brand new levels of complexity to an already demanding discipline.  Organisations have had to rapidly adopt new technologies to enable remote working and scale-up digital touch points with customers. This has, at times,…

How can you maintain security when employees work remotely? Nothing about this pandemic has been normal. As the COVID-19 virus swept across the globe disrupting everything and everyone in its path, people’s lives changed in a dramatic fashion, both personally and professionally. Global restrictions on movement and human-to-human contact forced…

For our latest report 'The New Workplace 2021' we carried out a survey of over 10,000 workers across eight European countries France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Our goal was to gain a deep understanding of the long-term impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on how, where and when we work. The global…

How can business leaders build trust in remote teams? Over the past year, the global shift to remote work has changed the way we live and completely transformed the way organisations view productivity and collaboration. Where work was once defined almost exclusively within the physical realm of the office, business leaders must now navigate the…

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a form of multi-factor authentication (MFA), and is also known as two-step authentication or two-step verification. 2FA is a security measure that requires end-users to verify their identities through two types of identifiers to gain access to an application, system, or network. Think of your most recent login…