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Three Ways to Secure Branch Sites

Three Ways to Secure Branch Sites

Forcepoint
Published by: Research Desk Released: May 09, 2019

Distributed networks are the new reality of today’s mobile, global workforce. As organizations become more dispersed, they need holistic security programs across all sites to leverage the latest advances in IT and adopt cloud-based applications— while supporting greater user productivity.

Changing the way each branch site connects also influences other things, most notably, security. Gartner specifically advises clients that branch office firewalls must offer the same level of security as primary internet gateways. Once a branch connects directly to the internet, it has essentially become a primary internet gateway.