Distributed workforce access
Protect your workforce, wherever they work
Protecting a workforce that is no longer in one place takes more than extending the old perimeter. We put one policy around how people reach the internet, private applications and your network, applied the same way everywhere and logged as it is enforced.
Your workforce moved.
Your security model didn't
For decades, workforce security was a location problem. Users sat in offices. Traffic stayed on the network. The perimeter was the line you defended, and what crossed it was inspected on the way in or out.
Hybrid working has dissolved the perimeter as a useful concept. Users connect from home, from clinical settings, from coffee shops, from third-party sites, from anywhere their work takes them. Internet traffic goes direct from device to web, bypassing whatever controls were built for the on premise model. Access to internal applications still happens over VPNs that weren’t designed for the volume or the security expectations that come with hybrid work.
The result is a workforce security model that protects the building most of your users aren’t in.
Users everywhere, controls nowhere
The gap rarely shows up as a single visible failure. It accumulates as small, separate signals that share an underlying cause.
A phishing email that got through because the inspection that would have caught it was on the office firewall the user wasn’t sitting behind. A VPN that’s slow, occasionally drops, and gives users a way into the network rather than a way into the specific applications they need. An auditor asking how internet access is governed across the workforce and the answer being “it depends where they are.” Shadow IT that nobody knew about until someone left and their SaaS subscriptions went with them.
Each of these has the same root cause: security designed for an office workforce, applied to a workforce that isn’t in the office.
Where the conversation usually starts
A VPN that's outlived its design
The VPN was deployed for occasional remote access. It’s now carrying the majority of working traffic, exposing the network to every connected device, with no application-level control and no way to enforce identity or device posture before granting access.
An audit question that can't be answered cleanly
DSPT, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials. Assessors are increasingly asking for evidenced internet access controls and access governance, not just the existence of a firewall. The next assessment is approaching and the answers need to be defensible.
A phishing or malware incident
Something got through. A user clicked a link, downloaded an attachment, fell for a credential prompt. Usually a user who was working remotely at the time. The investigation reveals there was no inspection on the traffic, no way to block the destination, and no logging of what happened next.
Legacy controls that only cover the office
An on-premise proxy or firewall-based URL filtering, built when most users were in the building. Now covering a fraction of the workforce, with no equivalent protection for the rest.
A new security lead inheriting the model
A new CISO, Head of Security or IT Director taking stock of what they own. They need to understand what’s protected, what isn’t, and how confidently the organisation can defend its current posture, fast.
The policy should follow the user,
not the connection.
The reason office-era security does not stretch to a distributed workforce is that it was attached to a place. Rebuild it around the user and the same rules apply in an office, at home, on a mobile or from a third-party site, without a separate setup for each.
One set of rules,
applied everywhere
Internet access, SaaS use and private application access governed by the same policy, wherever the user is sitting.
Access applications,
not to the network
Users can reach only the specific applications they need. A compromised device does not inherit the run of the estate.
Identity and device
scan before access
Every decision to allow access is made against who and what is asking, at the point of asking rather than in advance.
Every decision
logged
Access decisions, policy enforcement and exceptions all recorded as they happen, so the audit answer already exists.
None of this requires removing the VPN first. Most organisations run the new model alongside it, moving applications across as it proves out and retiring the VPN when little depends on it.
Where most
organisations start
Secure Internet
Access
Control and protect how people reach the internet and SaaS, wherever they are.
Secure Private
Access
Give people the specific applications they need, not the run of the network.
Secure Remote
Access
Secure network-level access for those who still need it, with a path to zero trust.
Add what you need, when you need it
Managed
Firewall
For the perimeter, branch and data centre security that sits alongside cloud-delivered workforce security.
Secure Application
Access
WAF to protect public-facing applications your workforce and your customers depend on.
For services people depend on.
We are built for consequence, trusted by organisations responsible for national security, frontline healthcare, emergency response and public trust.
Common questions about
workforce security
Our security was built for the office. Where do we start now people work anywhere?
Start where the exposure is greatest, usually unmanaged internet access or broad VPN access into the network, rather than replacing everything at once. Close the biggest gap first, prove the model, and bring the rest under the same policy over time.
How do we apply the same security to staff, contractors and third parties?
By making the policy follow the user rather than the connection, so the same rules apply in an office, at home, on a mobile or from a third-party site. Consistency across those groups is the point, not a separate setup for each.
How do we prove workforce access is governed, to an auditor?
The service should log access decisions, policy enforcement and exceptions as they happen, so evidence for frameworks such as DSPT or CAF is produced continuously rather than assembled before an assessment.
Does this mean buying a new tool for every group of users?
No. One policy model covers staff, contractors and third parties, with the differences expressed as rules rather than as separate deployments. Adding a population is a policy change, not a procurement.
Connect. Protect. Observe. Operated as one.
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