IT and security teams now are responsible for more functions, while corporate networks expand their footprint with employees moving to hybrid work and applications moving to cloud platforms. 

For instance, 52% of IT security professionals were not responsible for ensuring the security of both on-site and remote workers five years ago but are today. Another 46% have assumed responsibility for managing and securing either applications in public cloud platforms or data in software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments — a function that was not part of their role five years ago, revealed a study commissioned by Cloudflare. 

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