The Benefits Of Secure Remote Access For Your Law Firm

 

Remote access is a way to connect to other devices, networks or platform that are in different locations so that work can be done effectively and efficiently. Nowadays a trend has started where the companies prefer their staff workers to work from remote places instead of sitting and working from the company's premises, because of technology and internet access more and more people have started working from remote places. With the rising number of end points that is laptop, servers, tablets, smart phones requiring access to parent firm's network, the probability of cyber threat has increased manifold.

 

Cyber security policies and best practices should be adopted to address cyber risks and vernabilities. Secure remote access prevents unauthorised access to your network thereby preventing any confidential or sensitive data from being breached.The secure remote access provides highly secure access from any device and gives secure internet browsing. It also protects laptops and mobile devices, a few features of remote communication include video conferencing, chat functions, shared Word processing and file sharing which ensure a person can safely continue working remotely and can be far more productive. It should be the policy of the organisation that no staff member can download customers data to their personal computer. All the data should also be backed up and can be recovered easily whenever needed.

 

There are many security solutions and technologies to make secure remote access. (Virtual private network) VPN the most common and well-known form of secure remote access in which the information and all sensitive data travels in an encrypted form from public internet to connect to a private network. A VPN can use multiple protocols to make network connections like

•                      Open VPN ( Open source virtual Private network )

•                      PPTP (point to point tunnelling protocol )

•                      L2TP ( layer to tunnelling protocol )

•                      IKEV2( internet key exchange version 2 ).

 

Since VPN also has number of drawbacks as it is not optimal for identifying, controlling and auditing third-party Vendors. ZNTA ( Zero Trust Network Access ) is a Cloud-based highly secure remote access solution can provide unified protection for virtually all users against web based threats. It is independent of a VPN connection. Be sure to choose a cloud host that is heavily encrypted, private and backed up.

 

Desktop sharing is a software tool that can provide real-time sharing of files, presentations or applications with co-workers, Vendors and clients. Online conferences with audio and video content and discussions regarding the case can be done. The staff can access their work computer in the organisation from any web connected device.

In a law firm all the staff need not know all the details of different cases with which he is not connected. So instead of giving them access to the entire network, which may present potential security threat, remote access gives the control to the organisations over when and where and how much access the staff connected with the case should get. All the organisations should have a central hub for authentication and services to make remote access more secure. The security controls should be centralised for end points so the entire network is protected. This makes management of IT department much simpler and effective. Remote access software can identify which user and device are an approved part of the organisation. User group license can be given to the clients, so no other person not connected with the case can access the network. PAM ( privileged access management ) and the VPAM ( vendor privileged access management ) serve this purpose of making remote access more secure.

 

An important feature of the remote access software is the ability to log all activity occurring in the network. From video sessions to individual users authentication, these logs provide details about who is assessing your network how and what they are doing there. They also provide logging which is necessary for auditing needed for regulatory authorities.

 

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