A VPN is Critical to your Organization's Security

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).

Today's work environment is a scary place; you never know when someone is looking. Hackers have utilized spyware for ages to lurk on a device and gather data for various purposes, but the threat needs to be directly installed on the device in order for this to work. It doesn’t work when the data is in transit, which is when it's most vulnerable. This is the problem that created the need for a VPN.

A VPN is an encrypted network that provides you a secure way of connecting to your organization’s in-house infrastructure. In this case, the encryption protects your data by scrambling it into an undecipherable mess of characters while it’s in transit. The only way that anyone can unscramble the data is by having the decryption key that goes with the encrypted message. Essentially, only those authorized by your company can make sense of the data. Otherwise, it’s just a clutter of something useless to hackers.

This is why a VPN is so critical to the security of your organization. Often times data can be intercepted while it’s in transit to or from a device, placing it at risk. With the VPN, the tunnel between your infrastructure and the receiving device is a bit more opaque, meaning that it’s not as easy to see the true data, as it will be obscured and unreadable should it be stolen by anyone who doesn’t have the encryption key.

VPNs are useful for any business correspondence where sensitive or proprietary information is sent over an unsecured Internet connection. This provides the security required to send files and data when being asked to connect to wireless or other Internet connections that may be risky.

Macro Systems can help you implement the right VPN for your organization. To learn more, reach out to us at 703-359-9211.