The Importance of VPN for Teleworkers
someone else’s mismanaged network.
Privacy from prying eyes: A VPN tunnel protects sensitive corporate data from being snooped upon, but not just from black hat hackers or hacktivists. The encrypted data’s privacy is also protected from other systems as it crosses hundreds and thousands of nodes that sit between its source and destination points, including ISPs.
Centralized management and resources: With an effective and transparent VPN solution, teleworkers can leverage their IT department’s technical resources. Not only will the IT security team be able to manage workers’ remote connections, but it will also be able to add additional services to make the WFH experience better. These backend services include failover architectures to maximize VPN uptimes, monitoring VPN health, multifactor authentication to strengthen user logins and kill switches that protect company assets from unintentional connections.
Easier commuting and a better environment: Probably the biggest non-technical benefit to working remotely via VPN is just getting the opportunity to work from home. WFH eliminates the morning and afternoon commutes many people make to get to work—as well as the stress that comes with those commutes. Remote workers can spend the time they gain from not having to commute on the things that matter most to them, and fewer gas-powered vehicles on the road means a cleaner environment.
It will be interesting to see how far we can go with WFH, especially given how critical modern remote technologies have been for companies during the pandemic. If anything, perhaps we’ll see working from home as a new preferred company standard, as long as IT can provide the right VPN solution.
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