Majority of US tech workers use VPN

A survey by Wombat Security reveals 65 percent of US tech sector workers use a virtual private network (VPN) to enhance security and privacy. A lot of this usage will be because a VPN is installed by default on work devices, but the numbers suggest a lot of people are also using it at home. About 42 percent of US tech workers use a VPN on corporate-issued laptops, versus 41 percent on personal laptops. Interestingly, 31 percent use a VPN on personal mobile devices, versus just 29 percent for corporate-issued mobile devices.

And right now, the government is considering abandoning net neutrality rules, meaning ISPs and carriers could effectively create a two-speed Internet. Companies paying a premium would have traffic to their sites prioritized, while we’d get slower connections to the rest of the Internet. We’ve already seen mobile carriers throttling video streams.

Using a VPN solves both problems as it makes it impossible for an ISP or carrier to see which sites you are visiting or what you are doing there.

The high VPN use seems specific to the US, it's a lot lower in the UK. Almost a third of UK tech workers replied they didn't know what a VPN is.



Source: 9to5Mac