Thoughts on Secure Remote Access

See our latest blog post on secure remote access :

Remote access to your servers and other PC's is essential for effective support. The problem implementing this in a secure manner that only gives you access and keeps everything else out. Ransomware has abused remote desktop as an attack vector, more so than traditional avenues such as phishing and malicious websites.

In 2017 Wannacry used publicly exposed SMB ports as its primary attack vector. Remote desktop is often compromised by user accounts with weak passwords, the attacker would guess a common username and brute force password options on the exposed RDP connection.

Read more here:

https://symmetric.co.nz/blog/post/secure-remote-access-in-an-age-of-ransomware


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