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With data security being a hot commodity with hackers, it’s no surprise that companies want to do everything they can to protect their assets. One method for doing so is implementing a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, that can effectively obfuscate data while it’s in transit. Listed below are some of the most valuable reasons why your business should be using a VPN.
With the world dramatically changing in the past two years, work strategies have changed substantially. Now companies that once were anti-remote work are embracing the strategy. This means that the way they need to manage their IT has to change with the times. Alas, threats also evolve. Hackers and scammers are now doing more to target virtual private networks.
Virtual private networking, while maybe not the most recognizable term to everyone, at least seems to be pretty straightforward. Such a specific-sounding term must apply to one aspect of technology and that one aspect alone, right?
In actuality, there are two kinds of VPN. Listed below are what makes them different, and which your business should utilize.
In the modern age of mobile work, employees are taking data outside the security of your infrastructure and using it to be productive. However, this results that data being more at risk than ever before. Fortunately, today's technology offers solutions to this dilemma, chief among them being the virtual private network (VPN).
Numerous computer users worry about their privacy--and judging by the discussions surrounding the FCC and Net Neutrality, they should be. Now that users are responsible for the privacy of their online activity, they are finding new ways to make sure that corporations are not taking advantage of their Internet activity--mostly through the use of a Virtual Private Network, or VPN.
We talk a lot about viruses or holes in supposedly sound security structures, but today it seems as if that's all there is to talk about. It's all about the latest vulnerability, or a hacking attack that left millions of people with compromised passwords. People always concentrate on the negative aspects of things without looking at the positives.
Many websites around the world are still suffering from the nasty little bug called Heartbleed that we covered last month. This prompted over 30,000 TLS/SSL certificates to be revoked and reissued, but many of them were reissued with the same keys. If this was going to happen, why revoke and reissue them in the first place? They're still just as vulnerable as before, since Heartbleed could have leaked those same keys weeks ago.