Securing VPN and remote desktops.

Rajasekar A, Lead Security Consultant at SecureLayer7, walked teams through the VPN and RDP attack surface that opened up during COVID-19. This is the recording.

When organizations moved overnight to remote work, VPN tunnels and Remote Desktop endpoints became the new perimeter. Attackers treated them as front doors, using credential reuse, exposed RDP, and unpatched gateways as the foothold for ransomware and network-wide compromise.

The session covers the most common misconfigurations on VPN and RDP, the attack chains that turn a single weak gateway into full network access, and the hardening practices that hold up when the workforce is permanently distributed.