Sen. Wyden urges feds to discard older, insecure, public-facing VPNs

Sen. Wyden urges feds to discard older, insecure, public-facing VPNs

Sen. Ron Wyden implored a trio of federal leaders Monday to lead a comprehensive campaign to purge older, insecure virtual private networks that are directly accessible via the public internet from federal agencies. “For too long, federal agencies and government contractors have suffered devastating cyberattacks due to their reliance on legacy, insecure, internet-facing VPN servers to grant employees remote access,” Wyden, D-Ore., wrote in his m…

ZTNA Vs VPN: Why Federal Agencies Face A Security Shift

Federal agencies are facing growing pressure to evaluate ZTNA as an alternative to traditional VPN architectures, as cybersecurity threats expose weaknesses in internet-facing remote access systems. While VPNs provide encrypted connections for remote users, ZTNA follows a zero-trust model that continuously verifies users, devices, and access requests rather than assuming that authenticated users should receive broad network access. The shift ref…

Outdated VPNs should be purged from federal agencies, senator says

Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden wants CISA, OMB and NIST to lead a federal effort to rout out obsolete VPNs from the U.S. government.