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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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Embracing Zero Trust, Little by Little
Zero trust is an important security architecture to protect your business from cyber threats. But how complex is it to implement it correctly? And what message does it send to employees when you say, “never trust, always verify”? Is there a better way?
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Connecting With The OpenVPN Connect Team
OpenVPN Connect is an essential tool in the OpenVPN ecosystem, backed by a talented team that’s passionate about constantly improving this app. Today we are pleased to introduce you to four of the talented developers behind the OpenVPN Connect App to share more about how they work together, their strategies for development, and how this app became
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IoT Risks Are Growing: Is Your Business Prepared?
In recent years, the default protocol for Internet traffic has changed to IPv6, which offers an unfathomably large pool of 128-bit addresses to assign to devices on Earth’s biggest network, the Internet. How big is it? Large enough, one engineer once calculated, to assign a unique address to every atom on the surface of the earth and still use
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