Dixitha Srinivasan

Every IT team has been through this: a new hire starts, or an employee needs a tool to finish a project, and the request turns into a support ticket, leaving the employee idle and IT admins buried in routine deployments instead of strategic work. Traditionally, giving employees access to optional software has required IT involvement, whether through support tickets, manual deployments, or other administrative workflows.

Device management has long followed a rigid, one-to-one model. One employee, one company laptop, with policy locked to the machine instead of the person using it. That model breaks down fast today. Shared workstations, roaming employees, and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) setups do not fit neatly into it. The result is fragmented security, personal devices that are over- or under-protected, and growing technical debt across platforms.

Attackers rarely need to hack their way into a network anymore. More often than not, they just log in. As per  SpyCloud’s 2025 Identity Exposure Report roughly 80% of breaches now involve compromised credentials. Once an attacker is inside, speed becomes the real threat. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report found that attackers now move from initial access to lateral movement in about 29 minutes. That is barely enough time to notice, let alone respond.