outside the control of IT

Unfortunately, a VPN can degrade performance, especially if the company wasn’t prepared to scale to hundreds of VPN points. And certainly, using some network and storage intensive operations over a home DSL is nearly impossible. There’s been a lot of hard lessons learned within the security architecture community. IT in general got a huge shakeup,” said Thornton-Trump.

It’s also probably a little too hopeful to expect that all employees actually use a VPN every day, said Aladenusi, who added that COVID-19 is forcing many companies to rapidly accelerate their IT plans, which may have included more remote usage and VPNs five or even 10 years from now.

“We are being forced to bring the future to the present and there’s not time to go through a design process. We just had to get access to people. Some used VPN, some used multi-factor authentication, but some just looked for a way to connect,” Aladenusi said. “Another issue was getting secure devices to employees. Many have been forced to use their own personal computers that likely weren’t aligned with the company’s security policies.

Many newly remote workers don't have have updated software in terms of OS and antivirus, increasing the risk and widening the corporate network that is outside the control of IT, Aladenusi said. “It became a serious issue. Accessing the system and doing the work was the priority at the time, but this exposed many organizations to security risks.”

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