Michael Intravartolo
Mar 26, 2020
Updated: Aug 16, 2021
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Steven and Michael Beck yet again for
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another Tech Talk Thursday this Tech
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Talk would be talking about something
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that a lot of people wonder about it is
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basically what are some of the
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challenges faced by an IT department
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when employees want to work from home I
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would assume the main challenge is
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security based issues meeting I don't
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know logging in through unsecured
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networks or whatnot yes there's some
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yeah there's some concerns in that
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regard Steven here is in the IT
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department so what are some of the
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issues all right so one of the control
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of the current CERN's we have is
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specifically if you're in most of the
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cases people are working from home and
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from their home network they're
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connecting into our network to access
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resources and things like that so one of
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the things we always want is even if
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it's not work computer we would want a
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antivirus software on that computer
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because if you can access through the
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VPN tunnel if you can access network
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resources you know viruses other other
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malware then can also get access to
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those resources so you want to secure
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your endpoints even if it's a personal
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computer we'd wanted to be unlock
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additionally some of the other concerns
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you have is what if the VPN tunnel is
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down so you do have some concerns for IT
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departments say hey one of our ISP is
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down you know what the VPN tunnels down
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you can't access these resources until
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you know the network outage or the
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outage is fixed so I mean in those cases
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if you're still inside you can access
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many of those resources if you're
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physically here so if there's basically
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no VPN tunnel it's really probably
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difficult to work from home in excess
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yeah it depends it depends like for
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example you can access if you have
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office 365 - you can still access things
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through the office 365 web portal those
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are accessible anywhere you can access
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your power bi stuff you it all depends
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on
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what kind of environment you have do you
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have everything in the cloud like
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business central or do you have
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everything internally like Network
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shares certain printers those things
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like that
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so nice so would you recommend people
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working from home then well personally I
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love it so why yes but we also have a
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secondary VPN tunnel in case one of our
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ISPs goes down so and that's that's
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happened sometimes and it's just you
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know what you have to deal with we have
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some clients who have those two VPN
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tunnels and then when that happens they
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just go to the secondary tunnel and then
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proceed as normal so you also have to
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make sure that your VPN tunnels you have
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enough licenses to allow so many
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concurrent users at a time right also
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with some sophisticated VPN tunnels make
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sure when you're done working for at the
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end of the day you shut off your VPN
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tunnel some of if you keep connected
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there's some there's some firewalls and
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tunnels like that that will log all of
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your activity web browsing so if you're
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doing something leisurely make sure your
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tunnels disconnected and VPN licensing
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in general is not really to expensive
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depending on the type of firewall and
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the security software you use I think
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for example certain firewalls you can
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you only have to pay 50 dollars per
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extra license you want for concurrent
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access for the year for ever a permit
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life so so some of them are really nice
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some will charge you you know an arm and
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a leg so dependents all right so here's
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those were a couple tips if you want to
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take it to your boss and work from home