Secure Your Passwords

If your organization provides remote access to internal, protected resources to employees, business partners, or customers, then security has to be one of your major concerns. You cannot overemphasize the importance of remote access security to your IT staff and your employees, and as soon as you open up your LAN to outside access, the biggest danger you have is that your employees have not chosen appropriately strong passwords.

By ensuring that your LAN is only access through a VPN and only through reliable software that forces your employees to choose strong passwords, you can seal the largest remote security hole related to remote access.

If your employees grumble that they'll never be able to remember the difficult passwords they're being forced to use, explain to them that, contrary to popular belief, it is actually safer to keep a password on a random scrap of paper in a wallet than to choose one that's easy to remember, as a sheet with random information will mean nothing to someone stealing the wallet, but a simple remote access password can mean a lot to basic password cracking programs.