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Enterprise AR/VR: Keep Your Network Secure
Every year, it seems like more science fiction dreams become reality. When Star Trek first aired, the handheld devices they used did so much more than two-way communication, seen largely as flights of fancy in the real world. Now, smartphones are so ubiquitous that they’re virtually woven into the fabric of our society.
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OpenVPN Accelerates Next-Gen VPN Innovation and Business Momentum
News Summary Rapid customer growth, 4X market projections driven by need to better support remote workforces, accelerate digital strategies for growth and increase investment in the cloud Counts tens of thousands of businesses as customers around the world Adoption of OpenVPN Cloud accelerates as requirements for dynamic modern networks evolve
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Do You Need An Enterprise VPN?
Consumer VPNs and enterprise VPNs are not the same. They both provide virtual private networks, but they have markedly different use cases. The features you need in a business VPN aren't on a consumer's VPN shopping list. A consumer looks for a desktop or mobile app. They want secure, encrypted tunnels to hide their IP address and network traffic
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Your Business
Recently, the music band Kings of Leon sold one of their albums as an NFT at $50 each. They made $2 million. Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, sold his first tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million and donated the proceeds to charity. Will Smith and Michael Jordan have both invested in the NBA Top Shot developer, which offers NFTs as digitally licensed
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OpenVPN at DefCon 29
When you’re working with a fully remote team, in-person connections can be hard to come by — so when they do, we at OpenVPN make the most of it. Which is why August 5th - 8th, a portion of the OpenVPN team came together to attend DefCon in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Your Team's Kids Could Be Putting Your Network At Risk
Working from home has never been more common; the remote-team trend has been rising for a while now, but COVID-19 caused a surge like never before. If your team is one of the many that have made the switch, you might need to think about your network security in new ways, too. Are you prepared for the risks that come with a fully remote team?
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Layer Your Security: OpenVPN Connect now Supports PKCS #11
OpenVPN has added the support of external certificates on PKCS #11 hardware tokens for VPN connections to OpenVPN Connect for Windows and macOS in version 3.3, which means you can now integrate with a hardware authentication device such as Yubikey.
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What Businesses Can Learn from The Kaseya Ransomware Attack
Over the Fourth of July weekend, an IT solutions company, Kaseya, was attacked and infected with ransomware. Now, even with the full resources of the United States government to support them, this attack is still affecting thousands of businesses globally. With the perpetrators demanding millions, this attack has the potential to continue a
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Managing Risk and Driving Growth: Why CISOs Need to be Closer to Their CEOs
During her inaugural speech as the new CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Lindy Cameron argued that cybersecurity is still not as embedded as it should be into boardroom thinking.
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How to Fix IP Overlap with OpenVPN Cloud
Multi-cloud networking is the new reality for businesses — and issues that arise from overlapping IP addresses can hold companies back. Thankfully, a feature in CloudConnexa solves the problem by creating unique domain names that are used as routes to the different networks instead of the IP address subnets.
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