Why use a VPN for remote access in the cloud?

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Update: VPNs are under constant attack. If you use this option, you need to make sure your VPN is up to date at all times and monitor the traffic. I’m also exploring other options for developer network security. View the related network posts above.

Any time you are using public wifi, or in other words a network you don’t own and secure yourself that allows anyone to connect, it’s a good idea to use a VPN (virtual private network). A VPN provides an authenticated, encrypted connection that hides information in about the sites you are visiting from attackers. This protected connection makes it harder to intercept your connections, steal or read your data, or insert attacks into the traffic as it flows from your system to other sites.

To give you an idea what I’m talking about, let me first show some information retrieved by a sniffer when I navigate to Amazon.com in a web browser. When visiting this site, many different URLs are used to pull together the content you see when you visit the home page. One of the domain names is read.amazon.com. If I run a sniffer while visiting that web…