While banks have adapted to the shift from traditional banking, they must still adhere to strict guidelines with respect to protecting customer data. Maintaining a secure environment while supporting a mobile workforce presents a number of financial and security challenges:
Home-based employees require costly hardware and software to connect to business-critical applications in a secure manner
When employees are visiting customers on-site, they still need to retrieve data, but require a VPN connection to do so
The IT department cannot control or monitor the data that is being accessed when there is no connection the corporate network
Company policies and restrictions cannot be applied either if the employee is not on a secure connection