Personal Cybersecurity Isn't Enterprise Cybersecurity

By Frances Dewing, Rubica

As the CEO of a cybersecurity company, I see how most security products are built: by the enterprise, for the enterprise. Top-down information technology produces with one consistent result: a heavy-handed product requiring highly technical staff for ongoing support and maintenance. Simply put, most security products were designed for a fixed security perimeter around a physical corporate office, assuming on-premises staff in a single location.

Enter the clunky security solution mobile. Can it scale? Will your employees use it? Does the product itself assume your IT staff might be fixing issues remotely for remote workers?

Why enterprise security is built backwards

As a user, enterprise cybersecurity doesn’t feel like it was built for me. In most companies, cybersecurity is something that is deployed on you, to control, monitor, and restrict you. Big-box cybersecurity built for companies is rarely transparent to the end-user. It’s more like a black-box cybersecurity: the user doesn’t usually know if their device has malware, how they got it, or what to do next. At that point, the employee has an infected device but not much choice or control in handling it. And now, they’re remote, and frustrated, and the device is literally not in the hands of the IT staff for remediation.