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County IT warns of remote-access appliance end-of-life; replacement may increase licensing costs
Summary
County IT staff told supervisors that a remote-access appliance used for VPN-style access will reach end-of-life in October and the vendor's replacement uses named-user cloud licensing, which could increase costs and require policy guidance.
Muscatine County information-technology staff briefed supervisors Sept. 22 on an upcoming end-of-life for a remote-access appliance the county uses to provide remote system access.
IT staff (Bill) said the vendor notified the county that the appliance will be discontinued at the end of October after the vendor found multiple vulnerabilities. The county has been testing an alternative during the past month; the proposed replacement is cloud-based and uses named-user licensing rather than the county’s current concurrent-user…
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