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Understand AWS Verified Access

Understand AWS Verified Access

- [Instructor] Today's workforce is increasingly mobile and professionals need access to line of business applications from a variety of non-traditional locations. Historically, accessing remote corporate applications requires a VPN. With AWS verified access, you can lose the VPN while improving your security posture. Consider a typical scenario. Jackson is a salesperson. Like all salespeople, he needs to access the corporate customer relationship management system. Peter is one of Jackson's coworkers in the finance department. To do his job, Peter accesses the corporate enterprise resource planning system. When Jackson and Peter are in the office, they can access the systems directly from their assigned corporate IP address. Typically, that works well. However, Jackson needs to visit a potential client in Modena, Italy. While Peter is going on a skiing vacation to Montana, Jackson needs to access the CRM from overseas and Peter's colleagues asked him to take a quick look at some…

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