Anyone have VPN acquisition advice?
April 22, 2021
by a searcher from City University of New York, Brooklyn College in Austin, TX, USA
Hello,
If you are familiar with VPN, we are considering a VPN as an acquisition and are looking for advice.
If you have direct experience/knowledge with this, I would like to discuss this with you in more detail.
Thank you
in Seattle, WA, USA
Marketing and product differentiation will be your #1 challenge as there's a ton of players in this space, including many free ones, (mostly originating from China to steal data but most people don't know that).
Other concerns will be quality, (is the underlying technology actually secure or did they just cobble it together and you'll be dealing with the backlash of negative news down the road?), and back-end infrastructure, (is it well-distributed? Robust? Adequate performance?)
VPN infrastructure also tends to be a higher profile target for malicious operators as a compromise gives them access to otherwise-inaccessible data feeds, (see China ref above).
(This is just off the top of my head, a deeper analysis would require considerably more information.)
from University of California, Berkeley in Calgary, AB, Canada
VPNs are offered as part of other platforms. For example, AVAST (formerly AVG) includes a VPN product with their security suite. It also provides a free version on Android.