Focused guidance on securing Remote Desktop Protocol deployments against cyberattacks. Topics include network-level authentication, multi-factor authentication for RDP sessions, firewall configuration, VPN tunneling, port management, and monitoring for unauthorized remote access attempts.
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A Single Exposed RDP Port Cost One Hospital Everything In 2023, a regional hospital in Illinois discovered that attackers had been inside their network for over three weeks. The entry point? A single Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) port left open to the internet. The threat actors used brute-forced credentials to
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center flagged Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) as one of the top three initial access vectors for ransomware incidents. That wasn't a surprise to anyone who monitors Shodan — the search engine that indexes internet-facing devices. On any given day, you
