Why Does a VPN Service Provider Company Audits?
Why does a VPN Service Provider Company Audits?
We all like to watch our favorite shows, but when the family has got the TV, we develop an interest in OTT shows, or like a foreign series which might not be available in our country, but we do want to see it, basically when something on the web is not available at our physical location, we use a so-called tool, VPN (Virtual Private Network), which lets us browse the content from a pseudo location. Whatever may be the purpose of our VPN browsing, but the most common and prior one is anonymity and the things we surf on the internet through the VPN must not be compromised.
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So, how do we know that the information we are looking and surfing is not being saved or ‘logged’ by a VPN service, well to keep all the ongoing and behind the scenes processes and ultimately to earn the customers’ trust, what a VPN company does is they hire another company who would just test their service and give a conclusion about its security and performance. It’s almost like a chief judge who comes and gives reviews about something online so that the customer base has a sense of faith and authenticity in that particular company or whatever service provider.
The company that is hired by the VPN company makes sure that the VPN provider does not use or keep the information or history searched by its users and has no logs.
There’s a bit of an issue too, that is, the VPN companies do not get audited periodically, they get audited only once. And as time passes and improvements are made in the VPN security and features, there might be, at some point, one, two, or more bugs or vulnerabilities. So, what is the assurance that there would be no subsequent or future problems in the VPN’s performance or info leaking, or buggy interfaces, that eventually may be handled by the developers too but, there haven’t been made any audit?
Even some VPN company employees said that even after the evaluator company has audited, the VPN company has full control over itself it can like revert the changes, this is at the same time, pointless too. But accepting that there are two sides of a coin, and showing optimism we assume that VPN audits are authentic and legit and one thing is that they must be done periodically.
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