By: Kishan Silva Ratnayake
During this current time of global stress, major companies like Twitter, Amazon, and Google are asking their employees to work remotely and restricting all non-essential business travel as a measure to keep their employees healthy.
So what's the impact of all these new remote workers on IT teams and specifically the network? Let’s look at a very real and recent network monitoring use case from one of our customers.
A large oil company in Asia recently implemented a policy where a large number of employees now have to work from home. How do you securely gain access to your company assets and resources when at home? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the most popular and secure way the industry gives access to company data when traveling or working remotely. Like most network devices that handle traffic, there are usually limits to the number of connections it can handle or is configured to handle at any given time.
Therein lies the current problem with our oil company. They were now experiencing a large number of....
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