One of the top concerns for companies is business productivity during this pandemic. On a varying scale, employees depend on access to their corporate internal resources to perform their work. Virtual Private Network or VPN is a trusted but costly solution to establish secure private connections over the internet. Some companies may already have VPN solutions in place for selected employees. With business uncertainties caused by lockdown, the current challenge for CIO and CFO is to decide which is the right solution, and how much to invest for additional VPN access.
Here are a few key considerations for deploying VPN solutions when most people, including the IT team, are working from home.
How easy is the installation for employees to set up at home
How easy are the access management, and support for network administrators
Can your network support the increased traffic over VPN
How much does the remote access system cost
How secure is the VPN solution
It is quite a challenging task for enterprises to support end-to-end network, and security technologies in between the data centres, and remote users. VPNs usually depend on home internet connection, and this is beyond businesses’ control.
Traditional remote network options are complex, and not designed for a wide-scale business continuity application – specifically in our current pandemic situation. Scaling up remote access involves not only the VPN, but it may also require additional server or network infrastructure, access management software, and supplementary network bandwidth. A versatile remote networking solution should be able to ease network administrator’s challenges to securely extend the corporate network to employees working from home, at a greater scale but with lower cost.
So, what are the solutions?
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