Hi,
For people caught using VPN, like the title says, when your IT department found out, were you informed and warned or were you fired for using VPN?
I’m using Tailscale for a week now and the speed is super slow. Just wanted to know if I can just use ExpressVPN. If caught I’ll go back to Tailscale. But I need to know if I’d be warned or stricter action would be taken.
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Why don’t you setup a vpn server at home and use a travel router. This is standard practice. Gli.inet router connected to vpn back at home and you are good to go !
I am a decision maker for IT at my company, we will fire you on the spot if you’re working in another country and we find out. That’s not to say it isn’t allowed, but we have contracts with specific data access rules we have to follow and report against. We let you work in most countries, we put you on a few restrictions to cover the companies ass, and away you go. But I think that we are a niche thing, so your average IT group isn’t going to be on top of checking for random access to a company device.
Have never seen a single post in this subreddit of someone getting caught. And if there was one, they didn’t follow a rule in the Wiki for doing it properly.
Your Tailscale is slow because you’re getting routed through a DERP relay server. You can either whip up your own custom DERP relay server on the same device as your exit node (difficulty level: hard), or you can setup a regular Wireguard server which is quite easy.
Do NOT use ExpressVPN. The only commercial VPN with residential IPs that I know of and would remotely trust is StarVPN but I still don’t even recommend using them either. Only as a last resort.
Is there a good solution for cellphones for access to slack when afk?
I am in CyberSec and it is very easy to find ones that use VPN that is not company’s VPN. Some of the companies take it as risk, and I do as well. And we do not allow and immediately warn employees that do it. It is also started in IS policy. This is especially is if it company owned device. But if it is not there might be BYOD policy in place which covers it.
Anyway, noone gets fired because of it or gets in trouble, but if they did it repeatedly after warned it could happen.
Because, you keep company data on your device, you use credentials of the company but you connection to some others network.
I’ve never had to deal with this, so excuse me if this is dumb. Wouldn’t Starlink fix this issue?
I already have that setup but the speed is super slow. I was told because my friend’s internet, where I have the appleTV setup as exit node, is 50mbps.
Is this related to the “kvm over ip” ir that’s another thing?
I heard one story from a friend. His vpn had connected locally for a moment and his computer just bricked. The guy was in some sensitive industry like finance or banking I think so maybe why that company was more strict
if I self host a vpn on AWS/gcloud/azure is that fine? I don’t have anyone I could ask to host a server for residential IP. I don’t think my work will have problem with cloud ip, many people in IT run their own proxy ad blockers etc servers, that could give that ip.
what about surfshark vpn as far as trust worthy in general use. mostly the use is for crypto exchanges.
whats wrong with using ExpressVPN?
I would like to know this as well
Sir/Ma’am you need learn how the internet and networking works.
it’s a scam, don’t go there.
Pay for your friend’s internet bill monthly as a thanks, and have him upgrade to 1gbps or whatever best fibre with their own dedicated fibre lines.
That’s the issue, you are limited to what the speed is of the connection you are connected to plus latency. If the connection is a 50mbps connection, that might just be the download speed. The upload speed is also important here.
Will it look funny if your work-from-home internet is showing as coming from AWS?