As of August 2, 2021, Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) is required to sign in to the campus VPN (Pulse Secure).

You can test/validate your campus VPN connection with MFA by using the pre-configured “UCSB Remote Access Trusted”  profile in the Pulse Secure client Connections list.  If you do not have the “UCSB Remote Access Trusted” profile in your Connections list, you can add it with the URL https://ps.vpn.ucsb.edu/ra-trusted.   (Optionally, you may delete the old “UCSB Remote Access” profile from the Connections list - however, after August 2, both the “UCSB Remote Access” and “UCSB Remote Access Trusted” profiles will behave identically, and both will require MFA.)

As such, we are no longer maintaining clients with separate connection profiles for "UCSB Remote Access" and "UCSB Remote Access Trusted".  The single custom client will contain only the new "Remote Access Trusted" connection profile for new installations.

Their Connection Profiles are pre-configured with the relevant Trusted URL:

UCSB Remote Access Trusted:
https://ps.vpn.ucsb.edu/ra-trusted

This installer may be used to install over a pre-existing Pulse Secure VPN client installation - it will append to the existing connection profile, if the above do not already exist.