3 Reasons to Say Goodbye to Your VPN

Guest Author Adi Ruppin

Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, have been with us ever since the ‘90s. For years VPNs have been enabling remote and mobile users to connect to their enterprise networks from the outside and to do so securely. VPNs have also been used to connect multiple branch office networks together (“site-to-site” VPN), essentially meshing multiple networks into a single network.

What has changed? Why can’t we keep on using VPNs?

Featured Videos

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page.

Remote work has boosted some great trends. Read on for more on the cyber security front.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Splashtop.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Avanan CEO Gil Friedrich (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Gil takes us through the earlier approaches to issues like Phishing and his innovation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Avanan. 

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Cylynt CEO Ted Miracco (Part 1)

Ted discusses anti-piracy.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cylynt.

Ted Miracco: I’m the co-founder and CEO of Cylynt. We are a cyber security company. We have locations in Dublin, Ireland and Los Angeles, California. We focus on anti-piracy technology, cyber security, and protecting intellectual property from theft, particularly, software intellectual property.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Appsian CEO Piyush Pandey (Part 1)

Piyush talks about security for critical enterprise data.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s first introduce our audience to yourself as well as Appsian.

Piyush Pandey: I’m the CEO of Appsian, which is a security software company based in the Bay Area and Texas. We have an office in Bangalore as well. I have well over 20 years of experience. I started as an engineer. I have worked in development and design in a large company.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Node International CEO Neil Gurnhill (Part 1)

We haven’t really covered Cyber Insurance thus far. Well, here we go…

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to the company.

Neil Gurnhill: I’m the Founder and CEO of Node International. It’s a company that has now been in existence for a little over two years. We’ve grown the business to over $5 million in revenue.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Brett Williams, COO of IronNet (Part 1)

This discussion focuses on behavior-based network traffic analysis.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to IronNet.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Portshift CEO Ran Ilany (Part 1)

This interview puts the spotlight on a highly specialized area of cyber security, identity-based workload protection.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Portshift.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: RiskRecon CEO Kelly White (Part 1)

This discussion focuses on risk within the cyber security domain.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as RiskRecon.

Kelly White: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of RiskRecon. RiskRecon is a provider of cyber security risk readings that allows companies to solve a wide range of security challenges. Prior to founding RiskRecon in 2015, I was the CISO of a large top 25 financial institution.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 1)

Enterprises have made tremendous investment in cyber security. Amos discusses how to extract value out of existing investments.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Siemplify.

Amos Stern: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Siemplify. We’ve been around since the beginning of 2015. I’m originally from Israel. I spent about 10 years in the Israeli intelligence.