data from more than 26 million devices, more than 500,000 unique applications and roughly 700 million monthly authentications from Duo Security's customer-base
Supplementary notes
* This figure depicts the percent change between average daily VPN and RDP authentications computed from June 2019 to February 2020 before the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the average computed from March 2020 to June 2020 during the pandemic.
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Leading remote access industries in North America, Western Europe & APAC 2019-2020
From the time period before the COVID-19 pandemic (June 2019 to February 2020) to during (March 2020 to June 2020), in North America, Western Europe and Asia Pacific, the education industry saw the most change in daily VPN and RDP authentications to remote technology with **** percent. Of the five industries leading the remote access charge, the telecom and technology sectors were also noteworthy in their increase of remote access usage.
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