VPN Retirement Readiness Checklist
Retiring a virtual private network (VPN) is an inventory problem before it is a technology problem. What still depends on the tunnel, what replaces it, and the cutover sequence that decides whether this lands on a date.
The problem
The appliance is ageing, the renewal quote arrived, or an auditor has asked why remote access still puts people on your network before it checks anything about them. Whichever it is, the hard part of retiring a virtual private network (VPN) is not the replacement technology - it is finding out what still depends on the tunnel, and sequencing the change so nothing important stops working on a Monday morning. Work through this before you commit to a date, because the date is usually somebody else's: a licence expiry, a support end, or a contract.
What's inside
- How to find out what actually depends on the tunnel, rather than guessing
- What replaces network location as the thing that decides access
- The applications that cannot move, and what to do with them instead
- A cutover sequence that keeps a rollback until you deliberately give it up
Who it's for
- Teams with an ageing remote-access appliance or a renewal quote in front of them
- IT and security leads asked why remote access still depends on a network tunnel
- Anyone who has tried to retire a tunnel before and found out too late what was behind it
Where this leads
Secure Remote Access Pack
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Work the checklist yourself first - it is yours to keep. If the gaps turn out to be more than an afternoon's work, this is the fixed-scope engagement that closes them against your date.
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