Remote working leads to increase in attacks on VPNs

Attacks against VPNs have seen an increase of more than 1,500 percent in the first quarter of this year according to a new report. The latest Threat Landscape Report from managed security services company Nuspire shows a 1,916 percent increase in attacks against Fortinet's SSL-VPN and a 1,527 percent increase in Pulse Connect Secure VPN. "2020 was the era of remote work and as the workforce adjusted, information technology professionals scrambled to support this level of remote activity by enabling a wide variety of remote connectivity methods," says J.R. Cunningham, Nuspire's chief security officer. "This added multiple new attack vectors… [Continue Reading]