Russian chain Monetka forces 2,000 remote workers onto domestic VPN
Nothing says "bulletproof cybersecurity" quite like swapping globally trusted encryption for a domestic, state-approved alternative. Get ready for some top-tier corporate surveillance masked as patriotic import substitution!
The IT department of the retail chain Monetka, which operates under the giant Lenta umbrella, finalized its migration to a federally approved domestic VPN network. They successfully pushed over 2,000 internal staff members and dozens of external contractors off their previous foreign VPN systems.
Moving away from imported security tools has become the ultimate corporate ritual in the region, usually driven by the fear of getting suddenly cut off from Western services. The company's tech team spent months rebuilding their remote access pathways, ensuring that managers and supply chain coordinators can log in without relying on "unfriendly" foreign protocols.
The new setup is designed to handle thousands of simultaneous connections to the corporate intranet, keeping internal databases safe from prying eyes—except, of course, the eyes of local regulators who love a good domestic encryption key.
Replacing standard global security protocols with locally-made alternatives is the ultimate coping mechanism of modern corporate IT. It is only a matter of time before they discover that keeping the bad guys out also means locking themselves into a very lonely, heavily monitored digital basement.
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