First Community Bank Chooses Route1's MobiKEY over VPN

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[{"type":"text","content":"First Community Bank Chooses Route1's MobiKEY over VPNTORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / September 24, 2020 / Route1 Inc. (OTCQB:ROIUF and TSXV:ROI) (the \"Company\" or \"Route1\"), an advanced North American provider of data-centric business empowerment solutions, today announced that First Community Bank chose Route1's secure remote work technology MobiKEY for its 27 branches and 80 staff members over a competing virtual private network or VPN solution.The SituationWhen Karl Kemp added two employees to his First Community Bank IT team six years ago, he learned about a secure remote work solution that promised advantages over virtual private networking (VPN). Kemp was intrigued.\"I was not unhappy with VPNs at the time,\" remembers Kemp, First Community's Senior Vice President and Director of Information Technology, \"other than being a bit aggravated at the difficulties of managing them. I was, however, concerned about the overall security of allowing a computer outside of my network, my control and my cleaning processes to have a direct tunnel into my network. There just didn't seem to be a great alternative.\"The alternatives that Kemp had considered included Mobile VPN solutions with a certificate, hard VPN solutions or VPN services, which he ruled out immediately. \"As a bank, we are cloud-averse,\" he says. \"I just don't like giving someone else the keys to my back door. The same goes for GoToMeeting and GoToMyPC.\" The other option that Kemp considered was IP-locked remote desktop protocols, which he finds painful to manage. He acknowledges that while firewalls can be bolstered to block most known threats, you can't protect against a Zero Day event with a firewall…or a VPN.The SolutionThe secure remote work solution that the new employees brought to Kemp's attention was MobiKEY. He deployed several of the devices for the IT team, then rolled them out for the executive team. The MobiKEY technology was well received. The staff found it easy to use and effective when remoting into their PCs at the head office or at any of First Community's 27 branches in Arkansas and Missouri. Both teams now carry MobiKEY devices at all times.Kemp also valued the data loss-prevention aspect of the MobiKEY technology over VPNs. \"It's tough to lose something that hasn't left the office,\" he chuckles. \"When all of your files stay at the ban...

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