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How Does a VPN Work? A Comprehensive Beginner’s Overview

eSecurity Planet

A virtual private network (VPN) does more than just mask your identity—it fundamentally changes how your data moves across the internet. But what’s really going on under the hood when you browse the web using a VPN? This process involves multiple steps and technologies working together to ensure your data remains private and secure.

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Comparing Top VPN Solutions: SurfShark vs ExpressVPN

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Surfshark and ExpressVPN are both popular VPNs for individuals and home office setups. Surfshark is a highly affordable solution with many useful features for basic and advanced VPN needs. ExpressVPN offers strong security and privacy for customers who are willing to pay more for a quality solution. 5 Security and privacy: 4.7/5

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What Is Secure Remote Access?

eSecurity Planet

To protect your team’s remote communications, your security team must understand the weaknesses of remote access protocols and why securing them is so important. How Secure Remote Access Works Remote access technology uses protocols to make one computer’s content available to another one.

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     VMware SASE Solution Review

eSecurity Planet

Remote users can access the SASE environment using the VMware SD-WAN Client agent which creates virtual private network (VPN) connections to the VMware SASE solution instead of backhauled connections through corporate IT infrastructure. out of 5 possible criteria Customer Support: 3.12

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Ransomware Groups Look for Inside Help

eSecurity Planet

Historically, ransomware has been delivered via email attachments or, more recently, using direct network access obtained through things like unsecure VPN accounts for software vulnerabilities,” Crane Hassold, director of threat intelligence at Abnormal Security, wrote in a blog post.

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China-linked APT Silk Typhoon targets IT Supply Chain

Security Affairs

Silk Typhoon targets multiple sectors worldwide, including information technology (IT) services and infrastructure, remote monitoring and management (RMM) companies, managed service providers (MSPs) and affiliates, healthcare, legal services, higher education, defense, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and energy.

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What is SASE? Secure Access Service Service Edge Explained

eSecurity Planet

SASE provides an edge security solution that addresses these challenges without the bottlenecks of traditional virtual private network (VPN) solutions. In practice, various SASE vendors will emphasize their specialty, such as networking or cloud access, in their definition of the technology to provide their solution with advantages.

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