Technology makes it possible for many businesses to remain operational as they’ve had to shift their workforce to a remote setting in due to COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines. For some organizations, this shift has not happened without technical challenges: an increase in the number of employees working from home has strained VPN (virtual private network) capacity. This has significantly impacted the ability to reliably and securely connect remote staff to company networks. As a result, some individuals are combining personal technology with the professional tools that they have available to work around the issues caused by inadequate VPN capabilities. While this may enable work to continue in the short term, it also leaves companies more vulnerable than ever to cybercrime.

Even large-scale players are experiencing significant disruptions. CNN reported that the Air Force’s VPN software can only support 72,000 people at once. The Air Force employs more than 145,000 in-house civilian workers and 130,000 full-time contractors.

As businesses send their employees home to work, some companies have been forced to handle VPN capacity issues in a “trial by fire” as they respond to the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

If your business is experiencing problems with VPN scale and capabilities, here are some tips as recommended by Microsoft:

Responding to the technological challenges caused by a black swan event like COVID-19 requires agility and creativity for organizations of all sizes. If you’re having issues with VPN capacity, and you want to employ some of the tips above but don’t know where to start, we can help. We can provide advisory assistance to guide you in the right direction, and even help with choosing the right software to meet your organization’s needs.

SOURCE ARTICLES:

https://www.microsoft.com/itshowcase/blog/running-on-vpn-how-microsoft-is-keeping-its-remote-workforce-connected/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/tech/telework-security/index.html

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