CIO , Data

As originally published by Ratinder Ahuja on ShieldX’s blog.
Many enterprises were faced with making a hairpin turn towards a new work from home (WFH) strategy. Corporations scrambled to beef up their remote access infrastructure to mitigate productivity downtime. For network and security teams, this means a dramatic and overnight shift in network topology as the number of VPN connections increased. Network accessibility was and remains the top priority but with it comes increased potential for security risks. Given the new environment, what are the key infrastructure concerns for security and infrastructure?
Recall, last year’s spike in attacks targeting VPN servers—notably spear headed by nation-state actors–against Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Pulse Secure, and Citrix:
These lead to new ways of bypassing perimeter security controls as attackers get past the VPN and land inside your data center. Need further proof, look no further than aerospace giant Airbus, who was hit by a series of attacks targeting VPNs used by airline suppliers to steal sensitive company data.
This is further exacerbated by enabling employees to work from home without the right planning cycles to prepare for such a move. Each of these systems should have been patched last year when the vulnerabilities were disclosed, and the first attacks began hitting organizations. However, with more and more companies needing VPN capabilities to allow workers to log into private corporate systems and perform their responsibilities, IT staff responded by putting up more VPN servers to deal with the surging traffic. Here are five recommendations you should follow:
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