Businesses and organizations based in cities around America are finding themselves increasingly short on excellent talent as professionals across the board are seeking to live elsewhere. This is thanks to a combination of skyrocketing housing prices, changes in technology that allow anyone to do their best work from anywhere, and the global talent crunch phenomenon.

According to a study commissioned by Citrix, 70 percent of knowledge workers living in urban locales say they would move to outlying areas if they could perform their jobs at the same level. And of those workers,

This paper seeks to explore the many challenges facing IT in enabling remote work without opening up security risks, and how they can solve them.