Do they prevent you login from another city from home city for 2 days WFH?
Is there any location specific remote login control?
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You can log in from anywhere except a few countries like North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, etc.
CPG are among the worst people in the company. The whole rotten lot of them should be outsourced.
"You post is without critical thought which is a problem system to Wells.....My previous posts still stand and ultimately the answer to the OP is still No. There is no preventative measures to keep someone from signing into PulseSecure from anywhere outside of their documented geographic location."
Ironic. You are the one accusing others of lacking critical thought but that's what you demonstrated with this answer. You answered OP on a literal basis - that there's no control preventing it from happening. There are, however, detective controls that happen after the fact and those can have serious implications for OP - IF it is from outside the country.
WIthin the US there's no issue. unless you are routinely going to a different location than CPG has assigned you, in which case the CPG- police will come after you, eventually.
OP is asking if he can login from. Dallas on day 1
And then from Houston on day 2
And so on
@1ltq+1mujlrBY If the information is so wrong then how have I accomplished this for YEARS with no negative affects?
You post is without critical thought which is a problem system to Wells. There are “the rules” and then there is what happens in real life. Anonymous website and all but in terms of general discussion both sides are considered as being truthful and there is no reason to dismiss the other viewpoint. The blanket rules provided by the org are very clear, however in practice it seems to be more closely related to either your position and classification (regulated or not) and whether or not they need to be investigating you.
My previous posts still stand and ultimately the answer to the OP is still No. There is no preventative measures to keep someone from signing into PulseSecure from anywhere outside of their documented geographic location.
Different poster here, but I can say this is wrong.
They know everytime someone logs on outside the US. Geolocation is used based upon IP addresses.
They don't act immediately. They build a case. It is against corporate policy to take any work devices outside the US without pre-clearance. It is against corporate policy to log in remotely outside the US without pre-clearance.
Your name will be brought up in meetings involving Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Legal, HR and someone in your management chain (usually +2 or +3). You won't even be aware it happened.
Cybersecurity will be reporting to that group continued times it happens.
And then one day you will be told out of the blue you are fired. There is no warning.
@1aan+1mujlrBY I would say that is what SHOULD happen but having first hand personal experience with that situation it is not what happens. At-least not across the board. Perhaps there is a subset of employees who are actively monitored because of position.
But the more likely scenario I can imagine is that anyone that this was the catalyst for their exit was already being monitored for a reason to be let go or an investigation was launched to review their activity afterwards to build the case against them.
if you log in outside the US and don't have pre authorization to do so your access will be revoked pretty quickly and your manager notified. have seen in happen a couple times
WTF?
The answer to all of that is No. You can connect to any of the vpn connection points from anywhere in the world hat you have internet access. I know this because I have done this across the U.S. and globe many times over my tenure here and have ever been queried as to why I was connecting from an odd location.
Could/Should this be an issue? Absolutely because of regulatory and taxation laws. Stateside concerns are primarily taxation based, if WFH but operating out of state/alternate big city from your defined work location there could be tax implications for yourself and the company if you meet a number of days threshold set by that jurisdiction.
Overseas the same taxation plus various import/export laws and visa status issues while in your host country.
You can circumnavigate these concerns with a personal vpn on a device that provides internet access to your work device for relatively cheap when compared to the freedom it provides.