While a COVID-19 vaccine is encouraging, companies are still facing a tremendous challenge to keep the wheels turning while teams work remotely. IT and Finance teams are under huge pressure to optimize IT spend in the short term while looking at the long-term effects of their decisions.

A few years ago, I was talking to an organization’s executive about the budget needed for a security initiative. We discussed the idea that organizations must understand that it’s not if they’ll be breached, but when. If a breach is inevitable either way, the executive asked, why should I spend all this money on security?…