How SMBs can make the shift away from legacy corporate VPN
The remote workforce is here to stay. Statistics show that this new way of working greatly benefits both employers and employees. But the reality is that most organizations weren’t ready to enable and support a mostly-remote work force when the forced quarantines went into effect. Businesses have done what they can to quickly pivot and survive, but many are finding that supporting remote workers using existing on-premise tools and solutions is far from ideal.
Enabling a distributed, remote workforce to be productive 24/7 requires systems, services, application programming interfaces, data, and processes to be accessible through multiple mechanisms anywhere, anytime, from any user device over the internet. While this approach has enabled organizations to maintain business continuity during the pandemic, it has also expanded the surface area for attackers to target. Since the onset of COVID-19, the FBI has seen a 300% spike in reported cybercrimes. Threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the architecture of traditional tools is inadequate to sufficiently protect businesses.
Corporate VPNs can be a liability to the modern enterprise
As more applications move up to the cloud, network-centric solutions like remote access VPNs are no longer effective in securing sensitive data. According to IDC, VPN was being used in 68% of major incidents involving remote access tools. Analysts anticipate that the risk will only continue to grow, with Gartner expecting that by 2025, laggard organizations will be their own worst enemy, with more than 85% of successful attacks against moder ..
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