Secure Connectivity is Key to Employee Productivity

Employee productivity is essential to any business, and poor or slow home internet impacts employees' performance of their daily tasks. Cybersecurity plays an equally crucial role. When a connection is not safeguarded, the internet can become a playground for criminal activities. Last year, FortiGuard Labs researchers found that cybercriminals quickly transitioned their attack strategies to target at-home workers and their often undersecured networks. Exploits targeting consumer-grade devices and unpatched systems rapidly replaced traditional network-centric attacks as criminals sought to compromise home devices. Ransomware also increased over 1070% during the past year, with several high-profile attacks originating with remote workers. As a result, based on the latest Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of data breaches in 2021 has reached $4.24 million per incident, with nearly 20% of organizations reporting that remote work played a factor in a data breach.

Today's IT teams still face heavy workloads to enable their workforce to work effectively at home while protecting their corporate network and devices from security threats. And not just from external threats but from malware and phishing attacks that are introduced by home networks. They need a permanent, enterprise-grade solution designed to solve this problem.

Enter Linksys HomeWRK for Business - Secured by Fortinet

Combining their respective expertise in security and connectivity, Fortinet and Linksys have partnered to deliver a new enterprise networking solution. It is designed to improve productivity, optimize user experience, and maintain enterprise-grade security for employees working from home.

Linksys HomeWRK is a next-generation router and firewall designed to deliver a safe and fast network connection for corporate and personal needs in one integrated unit. Featuring the latest Wi-Fi 6 with mesh technologies, Linksys HomeWRK for Business | Secured by Fortinet enables organizations to provide their work-from-home employees with reliable connectivity, prioritized for corporate communications and collaboration tools. And it provides IT with visibility across all devices connected to the corporate network through a flexible, cloud-based management console.

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Fortinet Inc. published this content on 13 September 2021 and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 13 September 2021 13:11:01 UTC.