Outdated VPNs should be purged from federal agencies, senator says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.
The U.S. government must root out insecure remote-access software as concern mounts about how Russian and Chinese hackers have used years-old VPNs to target federal networks, Sen. Ron Wyden said Monday.
Wyden (D-OR) told the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that they must lead an effort to remove public internet facing and insecure virtual private networks from the government’s systems.
“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 said in a letter to the agencies.
Source: https://therecord.media/federal-purge-outdated-vpns-wyden-letter
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