The Covid-19 pandemic has led to more employees working from home than ever before. Organisations needed to quickly pivot to accommodate remote employees connecting to company networks as the situation played out in early 2020.
One method of allowing remote connection is to use Microsoft’s inbuilt Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). This allows a user to login to a remote server using their normal network credentials to an interface similar to a normal Windows desktop.
For smaller organisations who outsource their IT, it also allows them to access the organisation’s network to perform upgrades, maintenance, backups. RDP comes standard with Windows and requires very minimal set up for the user to create a client/server connection.
IT teams were not prepared for the race to keep organisation’s employees online; and misconfiguration of RDP has raised some security concerns.