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The Future of Tech - As Seen by the OpenVPN Team
Technology is changing faster than ever — sometimes before your very eyes. It’s interesting to experience the rapid evolution and draw conclusions about what that means for the future. While the OpenVPN team doesn’t possess any crystal balls, they are all very good about keeping an eye on changing technologies and predicting what advances might
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Punishing Employees For Cybersecurity Mistakes? You Might Want to Think Twice.
A team of UK researchers recently conducted a survey on how organizations handle when employees fall prey to phishing scams. Phishing scams are usually those pesky emails that end up in your inbox...you know:
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Many Hats But One Purpose with Rohit Kalbag
Rohit Kalbag, the Senior Product Manager at OpenVPN, is involved with a variety of tasks across many different departments — including, but not limited to: sales, marketing, operations, and development. "Working across so many teams gives me a bird's eye view of the essential roles each department plays in the company's growth. I can see
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Network Security: The Basics
Network security consists of preventing and protecting against unauthorized encroachment into corporate networks. Network security focuses on how devices interact rather than on the actual devices, like endpoint security. Network security and endpoint security go hand-in-hand.
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4 Steps Towards Small Business Network Security
So you just started a business. You might even have a few team members, and you’re thrilled — you’re finally following your dream in a very real way. You know from your last job that you need to protect your data; you need a security plan of some kind. But how does a small business network security plan differ from the plan of a big corporation?
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What is SAML?
What is SAML? SAML, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language, is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider and a service provider.
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Meet the Author of Multiple OpenVPN Books
My name is Jan Just Keijser — otherwise known as JJK in OpenVPN circles. I am an IT professional with about 25 years of experience, and I've been using OpenVPN for nearly 16 years now. I currently work as a Software Engineer at Nikhef, a physics research lab in Amsterdam. I work on high performance and high throughput computing. I have also
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