How are people able to telework for the fed these days

VPN
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Since CISA basically turned off all VPN’s due to hacking, how is anyone able to telework? Yes, they have implemented AVD, but that is a mess. It is so slow during work hours. You also have no access to anything but email and apps, and Teams. You can’t access any shared data. So how can anyone be legitimately teleworking?

Edit: From the responses it looks like not all VPN’s are affected. So, there is hope for me to get back to telework once they can the piece of garbage VPN we currently use. What versions of VPN are everyone using?

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Our VPN is working fine

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My VPN works just fine

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must be localized to your agency/division/group. Our VPN works fine.

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Global protect is another vpn used by many agencies

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NPS switched VPNs a week or so ago. There were a couple of glitches but those seem to be corrected.

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The only VPNs turned off are those agencies that use the Ivanti Pulse devices that in all honesty, needed to be shut down months ago.

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We weren’t impacted at SSA. Been teleworking fine.

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Our VPN is off for, apparently, forever. We have all be forced over to a virtual desktop. In my experience, it’s working really well. We do have a lot of files on a shared drive so whoever is in the office that day is helping people at home with that. We are also working now to move our shared drive (huge amount of files) into a sharepoint site that is accesssible by the virtual desktop.

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I think the issue is mostly DOD related.

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Most of my work doesn’t require a VPN even if mine stopped working :man_shrugging:

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Let me guess DOi?! Lol

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I hardly need to use my vpn but it’s fine

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We don’t all use the same VPN setup, many agencies aren’t impacted?

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Dod vpn here, works just fine.

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Interesting, CISA put out a statement about a government agency “incident” recently, seems the OP may of confirmed it was CISA, that experienced the “incident”?

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I’m DoD, no issues for me.

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Then your IT department really sucks!! If they truly understood what is going on they would stop using immediately. The fact that they are not reflects true incompetence….

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Your IT dept isn’t paying attention, then. :flushed_face:

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Nope. It’s on a server that is not a VPN.