What are the benefits of using a VPN in South Africa?



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In the past few weeks, since the Covid-19 crash, Zoom has grown from a useful video calling app to an absolute household name. The number of users has grown exponentially, as the world is finding new and creative ways to enjoy human contact digitally.

The use
of Zoom has exploded after political parties, corporate offices, schools, organizations and millions of people around the world started working from home.

Zoom, which competes with Microsoft Equipment and Cisco’s Webex has seen daily users jump from 200 million to 200 million.

However, the large influx of users on its platform has raised concerns ranging from its lack of
End-to-end encryption of meeting sessions and “zoombombing”, when uninvited guests block meetings.

Many companies have told their staff members not to use Zoom’s video conferencing app due to data security issues.

In the USA Senators were asked to find an alternative platform for remote work, and the Financial Times reported that the Senate had not officially banned the Zoom Video Communications Inc. service.

Taiwan and Germany have already imposed restrictions on the use of Zoom, while Elon Musk’s SpaceX has banned the app due to security concerns. The company also faces a class action lawsuit.

To address those concerns, Zoom hired former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos as an advisor and formed an advisory board to discuss his privacy and security practices.

So how would a VPN help?

The most important function of a VPN (or virtual private network) is to keep you and your data safe while online.

VPN providers redirect all of your Internet traffic through their own secure servers.

In addition to keeping you anonymous and giving you the ability to change your South African IP address to a location anywhere in the world, VPN services also encrypt end-to-end all sent data. The encryption part is critical as it means that if a cybercriminal or hacker were to gain access to any information exchanged, for example using public Wi-Fi, downloading Netflix or on a Zoom call, it would be completely unintelligible.

How

In the past few weeks, since the Covid-19 crash, Zoom has grown from a useful video calling app to an absolute household name. The number of users has grown exponentially, as the world is finding new and creative ways to enjoy human contact digitally.

Using VPN can be applied to your home computer, laptop, mobile device, even your router, meaning that a single VPN subscription can cover an entire household of online devices.



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