It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has made this a chaotic and challenging year for businesses. But it’s also increased user demand for digital adaptations and brought the value of accelerated IT practices right to the fore. Global executives and IT leaders are now seeing that a distributed—or dynamic—workforce can be a more efficient one, with increased productivity, reduced real estate costs and turnover, and a swift transition to the cloud emerging as clear benefits. As ISACA pointed out in their COVID-19 study, “One of the most significant lessons learned has been that remote work does, in fact, work.” However, some of this change happened so quickly that it led to network bottlenecks and connectivity issues. According to ISACA, 87% of technology professionals say that this year’s rapid transition had the adverse effect of increasing their data and privacy risks. Now that most businesses are remote.