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If you think your security admins have their hands full thwarting malware attacks, you should see what Microsoft has to deal with. The vendor claims it gets about 100,000 attack attempts each month and is dealing with an email to spam ratio of 1:90. Yet the company encourages users to use virtual private networks to log on and into systems, which many may think leaves the company even more vulnerable. But Microsoft has managed to tie two unique security layers to the remote access approach.
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