Majority of us works remotely, so sometimes when they can’t access a website, a sharepoint, a shared drive, we ask to check vpn as first things to do. Many times it works.
Then we will get people who don’t know where is the vpn on their laptop, why do they need to connect to it everyday… why? Why can’t you just connect to the vpn. You don’t even need to launch the app, it launch on start up, just click connect. Sorry for ranting. Today has been hard.
Always on vpn is a blessing
People tend to hate or forget them as some vpn services are shit. We had one at my company, which frequently disconnected our Wvd, for example.
Tell an angry German that he needs to wait another 5 minutes because your Wvd disconnected.
Could someone explain the point of it. Mine doesn’t auto-connect and I just work from home off of mobile hotspot and never have any issues. Is it purely a security thing?
Worked with a team of older blokes when I first started out. They would refer to users as wetware, in reference to risk assessments, etc. But, to me, it was because users were like water: they’d always find the path of least resistance, or what they think is. I find it’s often because they don’t really understand what it’s for, or the importance of it. To them, it’s just an extra step on getting started and going home. Gotta teach them, or scare them; that works too. BIG BOOGY MAN GONI STEAL ALL YER PASSWORDS.
MFA is a biggie too. Some people would just insta-accept any alert, regardless if they were signing in or not.
Corporate VPN means user will get tracked for every single thing in corporate server. Plus corporate VPN will also have some filters. People if working from home are multitasking. They are doing personal email check or chatting, plus working. Corporate VPN connection will stop that multitasking.
I forget it’s even on lmao I have it on my personal phone and just constantly asking myself why my networks being buggy realize it’s on and just do a refresh
For real. Set it to auto-connect and half of them don’t even remember it exists.
I told them it’s all about security and I share with them scary stories of people getting their shit hacked because they didn’t use the VPN or the MFA. By the end of the call they are completely sold and I never have to have that stupid discussion again. Otherwise they’re afraid of it and can’t understand why they have to go through it in the first place.