The way we approach work has changed significantly over the past few years. Our new reality includes a hybrid work environment with a blended workforce. To maintain productivity and steady workflows, organizations must enable secure and direct access to corporate applications and data for a diverse set of users (remote workers, contractors and partners) and their devices that typically reside outside of the control of corporate EMM (enterprise mobility management) and MDM (mobile device management) solutions.

Enforcing consistent access security policies across company-issued and managed devices, BYOD and third-party (contractor or partner) devices to establish trustworthiness poses significant challenges. You could require every endpoint to be managed, however owners of personal devices are often reluctant to install management software that gives the organization control over their endpoint. You could also extend trust to unmanaged personal devices as well as those used by your partners.