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Networkless working: The future of the public sector?

It would be nice to see more companies/organizations start giving us users the perfect balance between security and user experience by implementing 2FA which allows us to telesign into our accounts. I know some will claim that 2FA makes things more complicated, but the slight inconvenience each time you log in is worth the confidence of knowing your info is secure. I'm hoping that more companies start to offer this awesome functionality. This should be a prerequisite to any system that wants to promote itself as being secure.

setting up something like this with a number of agencies moving into the one physical location that had an existing backbone and network we handle the security through a simple process of routers and sub-nets as well as the log in verification systems. We were lucky in that we could also set the agencies up on different floors or different parts of the floor to have some physical separation as well. Thus each physical area had it's own router and sub-net that was well set up for security, and each sub-net had it's own file and mail server.

Sure it was a logical security set up, but the only place all the logical sub-nets came together was the main gateway. Heck, in some cases it was also the only place some of the sub-net came together physically as each floor had it's own backbone cable back to the main server room where the gateway was located, and most of the file server were in that server room as well - with VERY restricted physical access.

I don't see why this can't still work today!

It does; at least, that's pretty much how we do it.

See the GABRIEL Connection Technology. It operates in 2FA behind the scene and thus offers the convenience users have been longing for.