Don't get FIRED! |Essential Information You Need To Know About VPN's

what is good Mexit Planners are you a digital  nomad that works remotely and would like to do  

so from any place in the world or are you an expat  that lives abroad but needs to pay bills back in  

your home country or would you simply just like  to watch the super bowl or any english speaking  

usa tv series on any streaming platform of your  choice if the answer to any of those questions  

is yes then you're going to want to stick around  and watch this video where i break down virtual  

private networks or vpn technology for you right  now i'm going to explain the technology i'm going  

to tell you the difference between a hardware and  a software vpn and i'm going to explain the three  

different use cases why you would want to use a  vpn also be sure to stay to the end because i'm  

going to tell you some very valuable information  that i learned over the course of a 20-year career  

in data security let's get it vpn technology  stands for virtual private networks to explain a  

little further vpn technology allows for a device  on one end the client to set up a virtual tunnel  

to a device located in another physical location  say the united states that device on the other end  

and the other physical location is called the  vpn server the data that is transmitted between  

the vpn client and the vpn server is encrypted  therefore no one can see inside of that private  

network or vpn connection the vpn tunnel allows  for the vpn client to appear to be on the same  

physical network as the vpn  server which could literally be  

anywhere in the world for my trekkies out there  this is the closest thing that we have in 2022  

to the teleporter on the star trek enterprise  if you're a trekkie leave me comments below  

and let me know vpn technology exists in two form  factors vpn software and vpn hardware devices vpn  

software devices allow you to install them on any  device be it an iphone an android phone an android  

tv amazon fire stick computers and routers this  flexibility allows a user to connect and encrypt  

the traffic on a device by device basis hardware  vpns typically run the open vpn communication  

protocol and they allow for the router to act  as a client side of the vpn connection also  

hardware vpns allow for for clients to remotely  connect to your home network as a vpn server  

so hardware vpns can act as both the client and  the server if you're a digital nomad or an expat  

you want to make sure that your router supports  client-side vpn connections a hardware vpn allows  

for every device that is behind the connected  device to be hidden behind the vpn tunnel so if  

this is my router and it is connected to the vpn  tunnel all of the devices my computer my iphone  

anything that's connected hanging off wi-fi that  is behind this router is connected to over the  

vpn tunnel a hardware vpn is a great solution for  a digital nomad that needs to work remotely or an  

expat that needs to have all of their devices in  the house connected to the vpn most routers will  

support vpn connections and allow for clients to  connect to the router but only certain routers  

will act as a vpn client so what can you do with  the vpn once you have a secure vpn connection  

you're able to watch shows that are only available  in certain regions on certain streaming platforms  

some streaming platforms will only work with the  vpn server because they're not available outside  

of say the united states or canada the others  have availability but offer a very different  

regional catalog based on the location of the  country that you're connecting from another way  

i use vpn technology was to pay for my electric  bills and water bills to my local emc and water  

provider back in georgia that blocked access  to their services from computers outside the  

united states because these bills the utilities  as well as the local water authority in my county  

only had customers that were local they had  policies on their firewalls that would block  

access to them to their servers from outside of  the country and that is a very typical policy on  

firewalls in state and local governments because  they only provide access to a particular client in  

their region or county therefore there is no need  for a computer from say russia or china to connect  

the local servers unless you know those that's a  high probability of those computers potentially  

doing something malicious on that network this  is also a common policy in local school districts  

because most students will be geographically  located even if they're working remote or  

hybrid they'll be geographically located in a  closed area to the school district even with  

remote learning if you're connecting to  a local school district say fulton county  

gwinnett county cobb county or any of those places  in say atlanta georgia they're expecting their  

students to be geographically located or at least  to live geographically in those districts and so  

if you go to a remote country and try to connect  back you're probably going to have a problem  

because their firewalls are going to block  that type of connection the final use case  

is for my digital nomads that work remotely a  vpn will hide your location by hiding the true  

ip address of the client device your ip  address or internet protocol address is like  

your physical home address that is that you're  given by your isp so your router in your house  

connects to an internet service provider say  telmax or totalplay or izzy here in mexico  

that isp gives the router an ip address and that  is your public-facing internet address a vpn  

server or a client connecting over vpn will hide  your true ip address and allow the remote computer  

to connect to websites and potentially corporate  internet pages from abroad however i must caution  

you please listen to this point i spent over 20  years in the data security space you should be  

aware that deep packet technology exists today  in almost all current generations of firewalls  

what d-packet inspection is is the ability to look  at the protocols that are transversing across the  

wire now they can't see inside of the encrypted  tunnel but what they can see is all of the setup  

and communication between the server and the  rest of the world so i'll give you a good example  

if a streaming platform sees that every person  connecting from that stream or connecting to that  

streaming platform server is coming from one ip  address the ip address of the vpn server they can  

quickly block that and know that that is probably  from a vpn server so if 25 or 2500 different  

accounts have the same ip address there's a good  chance that they're being aggregated and then  

transversing over a vpn server to connect to that  streaming platform so what they what they will do  

is simply block the range of ip addresses or  those ip addresses on the vpn server that's  

why it's really important to pick the right vpn  software some vpn service providers like nordvpn  

also provide for obfuscated servers that are  specialized in hiding the traffic the vpn traffic  

i use nord on everything on my phone on my  ipad on my amazon fire stick across the board  

and if you want to use nord please do me a favor  and click the affiliate link below they're not  

paying me for this video but i truly believe  in their technology my recommendation to you  

if you work for a fortune 500 company or a  large government agency with letters do not  

try to fool them by using vpn technology get  approval to work abroad or to work remotely  

and to use that computer remotely because that  could be a potential problem they can detect  

vpn technology if you got one ounce of information  out of this video that you like do me a favor and  

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