83 percent of IT and engineering professionals bypass security controls

A new survey of 1,000 IT, security, and engineering professionals across North America uncovers a fractured landscape of legacy VPNs, slow manual processes, and overlapping tools -- with 99 percent of respondents saying they'd like to redesign their company’s access and networking setup from the ground up. The study from Tailscale also shows that 83 percent of IT and engineering professionals admit to bypassing security controls in order to get their work done. Also worrying is that 68 percent say they have retained access to internal systems after leaving a previous employer, revealing critical gaps in offboarding and identity lifecycle… [Continue Reading]