Saturday, March 28, 2020

COVID-19: With everyone working from home, VPN security has now become paramount - Catalin Cimpanu, ZD Net

With most employees working from home amid today's COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, enterprise VPN servers have now become paramount to a company's backbone, and their security and availability must be the focus going forward for IT teams. "It will be very important [that] the VPN service is patched and up-to-date because there will be way more scrutiny (scanning) against these services," said Guy Bruneau, an ISC SANS instructor in a post last week. Bruneau's warning is just one of the many cybersecurity industry alerts published over the past few days on the topic of VPN security.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/covid-19-with-everyone-working-from-home-vpn-security-has-now-become-paramount/