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The COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic has created serious IT and security challenges for Federal civilian government departments and agencies which must continue to meet their mission while reducing the on-premise workforce to limit health risk. The situation has also created an opportunity to adapt existing and new cyber defense technologies that the agencies have invested in previously such as those under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program. As increasing numbers of employees work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, new obstacles arise such as scaling and securing Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and remote access. For example, many agencies had previously not established or required mature security practices for VPN networks and remote workers at such a large scale and this situation is changing rapidly.
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