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RDP access when working from home

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Do you think using RDP to access a work computer from home is safe? Even if you have the most up to date Anti-Virus and a fairly secure home network?

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Can be safe. Depends on the user mostly.

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It seems odd that one would worry about the anti-virus when RDP is used to get to the work computer.

Is there something shady going on there?

Nothing shady

In reply to Can be safe. Depends on the user mostly.

Just asking a general question in the forum as it has been the case with quite a lot of work from home users during the pandemic. An Anti-virus would mitigate the risk of a malware or spyware being installed on the users PC, which could give the hacker a backdoor entry into the users work PC via RDP.

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In reply to Can be safe. Depends on the user mostly.

RDP or any remote access platform requires both end-point and host security constraints. As I mentioned prior, configuration, RDP Gateway implementation and multi-factor should be taken into consideration.

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