Information Technology Services

VPN Outage

Outage category: VPN

Location: All Mason remote users are affected by this outage

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users reported being unable to connect to the VPN.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Malicious remote attacks cause the VPN to crash.

Resolution

As permanent solution per Cisco Support, we upgraded the VPN gateway to a newer version to be able to install threat detection services, that will block malicious IP’s from outside world. From initiating attacks

Prevention

As permanent solution per Cisco Support, we upgraded the VPN gateway to a newer version to be able to install threat detection services, that will block malicious IP’s from outside. From initiating attacks.