How do you protect yourself while accessing the internet outside your office or home?

#1

Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure, you will likely need to access the internet. How do you keep yourself secure in this situation?

  • Use your own smartphone or hotspot
  • Use a VPN (corporate or 3rd party)
  • Find a network you can trust (even if it means paying for the access/usage)
  • Bring & use my own portable router
  • Firewall or other security software on your device
  • Only use wired networks to limit my exposure
  • Other

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#2

When I am in a hotel room I use a VPN to my home server from my own portable router that has WiFi and so offers me a network I can trust. Outside hotel rooms I prefer to use my own smartphone. To have data abroad I buy a local SIM. And as I work at a university I can use the worldwide EDUroam network whenever available.

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#3

Great input (and solution). Thank you for letting us know!

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#4

Using a VPN ensurers that your traffic is encrypted reducing the risk of MITM attack. Public wifi/hotspots are not secure; don’t take chances.

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#5

Excellent point @Villbo! Regardless of the device, encrypting the traffic is a great way to add more protection. For anyone who might be new (or newer) to security, if you aren’t using a VPN, I’m a firm believer that you should be. In fact, for anyone who might not be as familiar with why this is important, take a look at the article PC Mag just did on why your iPhone needs a VPN. It is a decent basic overview of the types of protection a VPN can add (not just for an iPhone) and why that is important.

Here is the link for anyone interested: PC Mag Article on VPN for iPhone
Note: The article also incorporates a review of VPN apps for the iPhone

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#6

But recently I have bought a public wifi/hotspots so what to do now?

#7

By using VPN to home sever.

#8

hey,
i use VPN. thank you for taking this survey!!
regards!

#9

Hey,

@jay , Thanks for posting this topic. I was also having this doubt but this survey cleared my doubts.

Best Regards!!!

#10

If connected to free WI-FI (which is rare) I use a VPN solution. But am more in favour of using my cell phone data connection.

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#11

By using VPN, Thank you for the post.

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#12

Have you tried home server that I have explained before? If not, then check this source to get the system work smoothly.

#13

Peter,

That’s exactly how I do it.
At Home, I configured an old Raspberry Pi to become my VPN Server. So whenever I travel I VPN into my home and browse through my Home LAN which has extras security Layers :slight_smile:

#14

Hi
Most of the times when i am out for some work i use VPN to surf on internet. It is very convenient to use free wifi or something else for surfing through VPN.

#15

Outside your home or office, prefer to use your own mobile data . Hope i am helpful.