COVID-19: Empowering Enterprises with Secure Remote Workplaces

Overview

The Situation

The COVID-19 pandemic, arguably the greatest human crisis of our times, has changed the way we think about business as usual.

And while the first priority for any business is to secure the health and safety of the workforce, ensuring economic sustainability is a close second.

The pandemic has restricted people from gathering in large groups due to the inherent health hazards. The result—a dramatic shift towards a remote working and work from home model.

With a WFH model, enterprises can ensure productivity and maintain operations during these trying times.

The Impact

Work from home will become the new normal even after COVID-19. Organizations need to step up and mitigate any and all security concerns to ensure the welfare of employees, customers, and the economy.

To ensure minimal service disruptions and optimal business continuity, scaling the work-from-home (WFH) model in a secure manner is a critical priority, but it poses a number of challenges:

Capacity issues on the existing infrastructure for remote connectivity in a more secured way
Ensuring visibility of user activity
Enacting a secure BYOD policy
Monitoring third-party access to vital systems and data
Employee protection from digital threats

The Action

Securing the remote workforce of today, and the future, requires new protocols and tools.

HCLTech has developed a suite of solutions that are perfectly adapted to address the security threats presented by the demand for work from home.

We help organizations assess and scale their existing remote working capabilities in order to ensure business continuity.

The ultimate lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic is simple: organizations and institutions need to act proactively in the face of uncertainty and risk.

By leveraging secure technology solutions, we can create a sustainable, conscious, and environmentally friendly model of living and working for the future.

Key imperatives to secure and protect your organization in the new normal:

Secure Your Remote Environment
Secure Users, Data and Brand
Re-Structure Security Budgets and Accelerate Strategic Security Programs
Secure Your Operations Technology

Secure Your Remote Environment

Secure Remote Access/Work from Home

Remote access solution that utilizes a zero-trust strategy giving access to authorized users in a secure manner.

Business Email Protection Service

Protect the organization’s vital information and the employees from phishing/malicious attacks.

Secure Privileged Access Management

Zero-trust model with secure privileged access management to provision access to the critical applications and data/ network.

Secure Users, Data, and Brand

Fusion End-point Detection Response

Find threats faster to minimize damage and protect your organization with visibility on user activity during WFH security monitoring of end points (with EDR).

Digital Brand Protection

Multi-channel protection from digital brand risks across social media and the web; and the employees from phishing/malicious attacks or impersonations.

User Security Awareness Training

For organizations, this is the right time to raise the security awareness of the workforce with training to remind them about good remote security practices.

Managed DDOS Protection Service

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection quickly and accurately identifies attacks to reduce risks, avoid costly damages, and protect assets.

Database Activity Monitoring (DBAM)

Current focus is on accountability and traceability of every user action in the structured and unstructured data environment.

Dynamic Data Masking Service

For remote office environment by offering flexible and powerful capability to mask sensitive data in real-time, without affecting the data itself.

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)

Organizations relying on third-parties to provide critical services should take immediate actions to determine the possible risks.

Secure Your Operations Technology

Asset and Vulnerability Management

Identification and detailed review of vulnerabilities, asset criticality, risk reporting, and asset inventory management.

Established Business-aligned Security Service Management

Includes the management of assets, access, service, incident, change, problem, and knowledge for OT environments.

Incident Monitoring and Triage Management

Covers systems, events, and network activities necessary for monitoring and responding to security incidents with managing recovery and entailing forensic support, reporting, and triage management for rapid return to normality.

OT Patch Management

For gaining visibility into active anomalies, remote connections, and misconfigurations in less than two weeks.

Third-party Risk Management and Security Awareness

Securing remote access that includes JML (joiner, mover, leavers), security policies and control management, and security awareness training for manufacturing associates.

Cybersecurity Risk Reporting and Operational Metric Review

Regular review of cybersecurity risk and operational metrics, KPI reporting, strategic planning, and deploying tactical cyber security initiatives.

Accelerate Strategic Security Programs

Re-energize your Network Security Project

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) and SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) solutions for better scaling and protection of your organization from the current situation.

Secure your Digital Projects

End-to-end security by designing solutions to secure apps, data, identity, and cloud.

Acceleration in Identity and Access Transformation Projects

Cloud-delivered solutions for identity governance, access provisioning, automation, and threat analytics.

The current crisis poses an even greater impetus on organizations to make optimized investments. During times of economic uncertainty and austerity, HCLTech strives to support its partners by empowering them to do more with less, offering the highest returns on investments with our optimized security tools that are affordable and easy to adopt.