1. What are the biggest risks when using the public Internet as a Wide Area Network (WAN) or transport for remote access to your organization’s IT infrastructure?

The problems or risk when using a WiFi is that, hackers often have the ability to position themselves between the user and the end point connection. and once these hackers gains access to your information and privacy, u might lose important documents or contents.

It is of utmost importance that when an end user is using a public WiFi as a WAN, he/she must ensure to browse with VPN turned on, and the sharing options turned off.

Explanation:

Solution

One of the biggest risk with public WiFi is the ability or capacity for hackers to position themselves between you (user) and the point of connection. so instead of communicating directly with the hotpot, at several times you end up sending your information to the hacker.

The hacker also have access or privileges to every information you send out such as credit card information, emails and so on. once the hacker gains access to that information, you run into trouble.

As an end user when making use of public WiFi to ensure to browse with VPN (Virtual private Network) on and turned off sharing options

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