Today’s teams get the job done from wherever they need to and on whichever device they prefer. Their workplace may be within the traditional office environment, but it can also be at home, in a coffee shop, at a client site, or even a combination of these on any given day. The range of endpoints teams use—whether a laptop, a tablet, a mobile phone, or even someone else’s device—only adds further complexity to access management for IT teams. When so much of the work we do is carried out beyond the corporate firewall, and often on devices beyond IT’s direct control, IT teams must rethink their approach to risk-reduction for unauthorized access to private and confidential information. The solution is contextual access management, which rates the risk of every access request based on its context. What is contextual access management? Contextual access management is not new technology—rather, it’s a new.
