A growing corporation is responding to the needs of its employees to access corporate email and other resources while traveling. The company is implementing remote access for company laptops. Which…

A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between the remote laptop and the corporate network, protecting all data in transit and extending corporate network controls to users operating over untrusted public networks.

SSL for web servers secures browser-to-server HTTPS traffic for specific applications but does not provide the full network-level encrypted tunnel needed for comprehensive remote access.

Network monitoring is a detective control that identifies anomalies after events occur but does not authenticate users or protect the remote access channel itself.

Multifactor authentication requires a second verification factor beyond a password, significantly reducing the risk of unauthorized remote access from stolen or compromised credentials - a critical control for remote access.

Full disk encryption protects data stored on the laptop if the device is lost or stolen but does not secure the remote access session or the data transmitted over the network.

Intrusion detection systems detect attacks within the network perimeter but do not authenticate remote users or encrypt the remote access connection.