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Re-imaging

Wiping a device and reinstalling its operating system and firmware from clean vendor media rather than patching in place. Re-imaging is the standard recovery step for a compromised appliance because a patch closes the vulnerability but does not remove anything an attacker installed after exploiting it.

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How to Rebuild a Compromised VPN Appliance

A seven-step recovery process for a breached remote-access gateway: preserve evidence, isolate, re-image, rotate every secret including MFA seeds, and hunt downstream.

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