VPN Threats and Exploits
Consider the threats and possible attacks against your VPN and how to mitigate each one. A VPN can be a critical component of your information security infrastructure. A properly implemented VPN addresses a number of common attacks against your infrastructure, including eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, replay, and others. However, while your VPN can mitigate attacks, it also opens up an entirely new set of security issues.
Remember, VPNs are essentially network devices and subject to many of the same security issues you would find in a router or a switch. If you are running a software VPN, then your VPN can have many of the issues you find on your network’s servers.
A hardware VPN solution can suffer from a number ...
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