It's important to know that there's more than one type of VPN.
For most companies, VPN use began as a remote access connection to a dedicated VPN gateway. The secure connection used the internet for transport, but the encrypted tunnel it created led only between your computer or other device and the VPN gateway.
When that tunnel was created, you became part of the company network: you could access the company servers and you had a company IP address. The network extended securely to your machine.
With a remote access gateway, your connection to the internet, if any, was through your company's internet gateway. These connections were provided by using dedicated hardware, and were often provisioned by an internet service provider (ISP) or major telecom. They were expensive and sometimes hard to manage, but they were secure.
VPN services like ours are attractive because they're relatively inexpensive, easy to set up, there's little management once they're running, and they're widely available. So why not reach your company's data through a VPN service?
The VPN network might be secure, but what happens when it leaves there? What happens when you run the connection to your corporate network?
And therein lies the problem. Using a consumer VPN to access your corporate network solves only half of the problem. You may have a secure connection to the VPN server but what kind of connection do you have between the VPN server and your corporate network?
In may cases, it may just be an unencrypted internet connection or maybe it will have Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). But for sensitive data, you need more than that.
Keep in mind and contact us if you have any questions related with that.
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