Blog Security What to Do When Your VPN Provider Suffers from Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Jim Black is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Akamai's Enterprise Security Group. He has spent his entire career in technology, with roles in manufacturing, customer support, business development, product management, public relations, and marketing.  A virtual private network (VPN) is one of the most common methods to allow employees working remotely to access IT resources over the public internet. It protects your data by establishing a connection between your device and a remote server, and also hides your IP address and encrypts your data. VPNs have been around for decades and are widely used across all industries. \r\n They do have certain disadvantages; misconfigured VPNs can allow a user to access an entire corporate network rather than only required resources, which makes it easy for malicious actors who gain access to the VPN to move laterally within the network and discover potential attack targets.…