Research details millions of exposed remote access appliances online

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A September 2026 scan of the public internet identified millions of reachable remote access appliances. The survey counted over 2.1 million OpenVPN, 1.2 million Ivanti Connect Secure, and 445,000 pfSense systems, among others. These devices are designed to be reachable from untrusted networks as part of their function as VPN and firewall gateways. The primary security risk lies not in their reachability but in any exposed management interfaces or pre-authentication services alongside the VPN. Researchers emphasize that the counts represent expected, designed exposure rather than direct misconfigurations.

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