#VPN Ban: Invisible Online Cloak!
The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled indian businesses to make significant adjustments to their workplace environments, including the adoption of work-from-home models and the shift to remote working methods has resulted in a tremendous increase in the usage of VPNs, according to AtlastVPN's data, which found that in the first half of 2021, VPN installs in india hit 349.5 million, up 682 percent from the earlier year.
This was the world's biggest country-by-country rise, making india the world's fourth-largest VPN adopter, trailing only Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Singapore, and due to the lack of internal server systems with their own security and encryption infrastructures, indian businesses are increasingly relying on VPNs to protect critical data shared within their organizations.
In fact, in July 2021, the federal government lifted regulations on VPN use to allow employees to work from home amid a public health emergency, recognizing the growing usefulness of VPNs to Indians. However, just as a VPN gives corporations anonymity and privacy, it also gives malicious online actors who want to hide their criminal activities from authorities anonymity and privacy and Cybercrime has been on the rise for a long time, and VPNs are becoming an extremely effective instrument for blackhat malicious hackers. If the federal government follows the committee's suggestions, it may be a major setback for some indian businesses that have relied so heavily on VPNs to adequately protect client data and we need to wait and see!