Enterprise and Personal VPNs

As we were writing this feature, a company-wide email appeared with a familiar beginning: “The IT department is investigating an outage”.

This time it was the corporate VPN that was out and, since most staff were working from home, they were unable to access corporate services. For us, that meant no fonts, no Creative Cloud license validations, and we couldn’t even log into the IT Helpdesk to make them aware of our disgruntlement. But what we should say is that corporate VPNs are (when they work) a good thing. This, despite using some of the same technologies (for example, OpenVPN) they are used for entirely opposite purposes to the shady VPNs we’re on about. Businesses use their VPNs to restrict access to resources and use hardware appliances to achieve this. Consumer VPNs are more about circumventing restrictions and are run using cheap, commodity virtual private servers (VPSes). It might be easier…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022

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