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Research Paper | Information Technology | United States of America | Volume 13 Issue 11, November 2024 | Rating: 4.8 / 10
Access Management Challenges in a Hybrid Workforce: Solutions and Best Practices
Vamsy Priya Anne
Abstract: Hybrid workforces or workforces comprised of a mix of remote workers and those who come into the office pose unique challenges in terms of access management, challenging organizations to rethink their security strategies. Employees working from diverse locations and mostly using a diversity of devices make securing access to organizational resources and data far more complicated than previously. The paper discusses the main dilemmas of access management in hybrid environments: the contradiction between the degree of employee flexibility and integrity preservation in organizational systems. This paper will use an analysis of solutions currently implemented in this area: Zero Trust architecture, multi-factor authentication, and identity and access management. It will discuss the effectiveness of these solutions in securing a hybrid workforce. It then details best practices that organizations need to have in place to ensure proper access, including least-privilege access policies, dynamic access controls, and review of access rights periodically. The work takes it further to emphasize the point that a holistic approach based on both technological solutions and organizational policies must address security risks. Learnings could be derived from case studies of organizations that could find their way to bypass the risks and end up outsmarting those risks. In a nutshell, the paper provides advice to organizations on how to have access management enhanced as they look out for coming innovations such as artificial intelligence and machine learning which will likely better the current state.
Keywords: Hybrid workforce, access management, cybersecurity, Zero Trust architecture, multi-factor authentication, identity and access management, organizational security, access control, best practices, remote work
Edition: Volume 13 Issue 11, November 2024,
Pages: 1891 - 1896