While security was by far the biggest complaint for customers, VPNs also caused some other headaches. Reliability for data recovery came in second, with 45% of respondents identifying it as an issue. The cost of the VPN equipment, its performance, and its manageability were all problems for users.
DH2i concluded the survey in summer 2020. Complaints about performance would likely have increased as people continued working from home, placing more stress on office VPN equipment.
Security is also likely to have become an even greater concern during the pandemic. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, the world dealt with a bug in the Pulse Connect Secure VPN that left its servers vulnerable. Intelligence agencies warned about attacks exploiting this and other VPN flaws in October 2019.
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Some organisations will, therefore, opt to pay the ransom to prevent this happening while others won t give into extortion demands. As a result, ransomware is now responsible for 46% of healthcare data breaches, according to analysis by cybersecurity researchers at Tenable. More than 35% of all breaches are linked to ransomware attacks, resulting in an often tremendous financial cost.
One of the key methods for ransomware gangs gaining access to hospital networks is via a pair of VPN vulnerabilities found in the Citrix ADC controller, affecting Gateway hosts (CVE-2019-19781) and Pulse Connect Secure (CVE-2019-11510).
Both of these vulnerabilities had received security patches to stop hackers from exploiting them by the beginning of 2020, but despite this, large numbers of organisations have yet to apply the update.
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The deep network visibility and Zero Trust secure access offered by Pulse Secure s (acquired by Ivanti) solutions have established the company as a valuable security partner in the era of remote working
SINGAPORE, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Based on its recent analysis of the Asia-Pacific secure remote access market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Pulse Secure (acquired by Ivanti) with the 2020 Asia-Pacific Secure Remote Access Company of the Year Award. Pulse Secure (acquired by Ivanti) demonstrated an impressive year-on-year growth of 29.2% in 2019, which was much higher than the industry average of 5.8%. This growth was mainly because of the healthy adoption of the company s Pulse Access Suite and the continual innovation of its flagship network access control solution.