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Ian Paul
29.02.2024
4 min read



DON’T LET CISCO ANYCONNECT HOLD YOU BACK 

Ian Paul
29.02.2024
4 min read


Cisco will cease providing patches and maintenance updates for AnyConnect
clients on March 31, 2024. Any customers still using these clients will be
exposed to risk should new vulnerabilities be discovered. You could also end up
with limited functionality if critical bugs emerge. 

If any of this sounds scary and a cause for concern, it’s because it is. Very
much so. To keep your business going and safe, it’s time to move on to a new
remote access solution. 

The transition away from AnyConnect is a fantastic opportunity to slip the surly
bonds of legacy VPN appliances and transition to the cloud with a Secure Access
Service Edge (SASE) solution purpose-built for this era of global, hybrid work.
 

If you haven’t considered moving away from legacy VPNs, here are 5 reasons why
you should. 


LEGACY VPNS ARE LESS SECURE 

A legacy VPN does one thing and one thing only: it connects remote workers to
the company network. The problem is that most employees don’t need, and
shouldn’t have, access to the entire network, just to specific applications and
data within it. Yet VPNs typically give people broad access to the network and
segmenting by application is difficult with legacy technology. 

Compare that to a Zero Trust Access solution where the default is
application-level access. Instead of broad access to the network, employees are
only given access to the applications they need.  
 

This reduces the threat of internal data breaches by preventing untrusted
employees from accessing data they shouldn’t. In addition, should external
threat actors ever obtain employee login credentials, zero trust mitigates
attempts at lateral movement since access to the network is limited by default. 


NETWORK PERFORMANCE: TRAFFIC CONGESTION 

One complaint we hear frequently from new customers is that their legacy VPN
doesn’t give them the performance they need.  

Most companies have a handful of VPN locations around the country or the world
that are supposed to serve their entire workforce. When you have a large enough
group of people all trying to access the VPN at the same time, all those
connection requests end up squeezing through the same narrow data stream at the
same time. In the end, everyone’s connection speed slows to a crawl. 

With the right SASE solution, you can have employees connect to
points-of-presence all around the world so everyone’s not trying to access the
same finite VPN capacity at the same time. 


NETWORK PERFORMANCE: THE TROMBONE EFFECT 

On top of congestion, sending your bits on a VPN world tour will also slow you
down. Imagine your company has two VPN locations: one in New York and one in
London. That might work for people on the Eastern seaboard or in Europe, but
what about the team in India accessing an AWS resource in Mumbai? 

First, they must connect from their location to the VPN in either New York or
London, then their traffic has to come back to India, and then finally connect
to AWS in Mumbai. All this travel means the India team’s connection is much
slower than it should be considering how close the data center is to their
physical location.  

Wouldn’t it be better to have a connection point near them? And wouldn’t it
better to easily add more connection points if, say, you hire an additional
overseas team? 


UNMANAGED DEVICE SUPPORT 

Unmanaged devices are not treated differently in the world of legacy VPNs.
Either a device has the VPN client and access to the network, or it doesn’t.
Allowing third-party contractors or employees BYOD carte blanche access to the
network is a giant mistake. They are all potential security threats, and they
are all connecting to your network. 

SASE does things differently. Instead of giving untrusted devices a network
connection, it gives them agentless access to specific applications via a web
portal. Even if they do get hacked or their credentials stolen, the hackers will
only have access to a single application, reducing the chances of a contractor’s
security mistakes turning into a devastating data breach. 


TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP 

Sometimes there is no substitute for an appliance sitting in a data center, but
that is not the case with VPNs. These appliances are less secure, which can
significantly impact the bottom line due to data breaches and ransomware
attacks. And poor network performance means frustrated employees and lowered
productivity—another hit to the bottom line. 

But if those potential future costs weren’t enough, what about the immediate
costs that hit your budget directly? The problem with using a VPN appliance is
it locks you in for a good three to five years, and if there’s ever
unanticipated growth that outpaces your VPN then you’ll have to spend even more
to upgrade, or even buy into a forklift upgrade at multiple sites. 

Plus, there are the costs of installation, training, and maintenance on top of
the purchase price. 

The alternative is a SASE solution that has minimal or no hardware requirements,
and one that seamlessly expands at the click of a button to accommodate a
growing company. 

If you want to see how SASE can transform your network, book a demo with one of
our security experts to see Check Point Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81 ) in
action, today. 





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