WASHINGTON, July 27 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called on the Trump administration to phase out and replace insecure Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology, which foreign adversaries repeatedly exploit to steal sensitive government data.
In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Wyden urged executive agencies to set mandatory security standards and ban government agencies and defense contractors from buying outdated remote-access tools.
"Federal agencies and government contractors have suffered devastating cyberattacks due to their reliance on le...