VPN Usage in Higher Education: A Study to Mitigate Risk Related to Public Wi-Fi Usage

Higher education settings have unique security risks in that they traditionally do not have robust security programs. Higher education network infrastructure can be outdated and resources for information security limited. These challenges are met with frequent faculty and staff travel for conferences and recruiting events in other states and countries. Frequent travel can leave university and faculty information and assets at risk; particularly when faculty and staff use public Wi-Fi in areas such as hotels, conference venues, coffee shops, and airports. Data in higher education institutions can be leaked when sent over channels that are not secure. This emergent research explores virtual private network (VPN) usage in a university setting using employer-issued devices. Emphasis is placed on VPN usage when using public Wi-Fi. The research focuses on the importance of risk to the university and its researchers as an influence on VPN usage behavior

Cybersecurity in travel based on the opinions of university students engaging in tourism

Cybersecurity is a critical, yet often overlooked aspect of travelling domestically and abroad. Several issues connected with cybersecurity, such as the possibility of network-based attacks while connected to public wireless networks as well as matters connected with physical security of carried devices arise when travelling and are exacerbated with repeated border crossings or stays in several accommodation facilities. This study focuses on gauging the types of security precautions university students take when engaging in tourism and providing recommendations based on the collected data and responses taken from participants of the study. In the investigation, an analysis of source materials was used in conjunction with a diagnostic survey distributed among university students in Poland. In the study, the research hypothesis of “Among the surveyed students, most are at least partially security-conscious, but the majority fail to implement adequate measures of improving data confidentiality and availability on their personal devices while travelling” has been put forward.Cybersecurity is a critical, yet often overlooked aspect of travelling domestically and abroad. Several issues connected with cybersecurity, such as the possibility of network-based attacks while connected to public wireless networks as well as matters connected with physical security of carried devices arise when travelling and are exacerbated with repeated border crossings or stays in several accommodation facilities. This study focuses on gauging the types of security precautions university students take when engaging in tourism and providing recommendations based on the collected data and responses taken from participants of the study. In the investigation, an analysis of source materials was used in conjunction with a diagnostic survey distributed among university students in Poland. In the study, the research hypothesis of “Among the surveyed students, most are at least partially security-conscious, but the majority fail to implement adequate measures of improving data confidentiality and availability on their personal devices while travelling” has been put forward

Security Investigation on Remote Access Methods of Virtual Private Network

Remote access is one of the prevalent business trends in today2019;s computing pervasive business environments. The ease of access to internal private networks over the internet by telecommuter devices has given birth too many security threats to the endpoint devices. The application client software and data at rest on the endpoint of remote access methods such as: Tunneling, Portal, Desktop Applications and Direct Access do not offer protection for the communication between the VPN gateway and internal resources. This paper, therefore investigate the security pitfalls of remote access for establishing virtual private network methods. To address these challenges, a remote access method to secure endpoint communication is proposed. The study adopted investigative research design by use of empirical review on the security aspect of the current state VPN Remote Access methods. This necessitates the review of the research article on the current state and related works which leads to critiques and offer proposed solution to remote access endpoint VPN. The scope of this study is limited to secure virtual private network endpoint data communication. In this paper, an investigation of these access technologies given

Uninterrupted VPN Connection Service with Mobility Management and Dead Peer Detection

The VPN technology is used to connect client devices securely over unsecured public networks. The Connection handover and Dead Peer Detection (DPD) are the most challenging and important tasks in VPN. In this present article, a solution for connection handover is proposed which covers the pre-authentication with new credentials for a mobile device prior to connection handover. In VPN, a case where such connection handover is failed due to incomplete connection handover or several unusual events which make a VPN client to become offline or dead. To address DPD issues a solution is proposed which includes a Keep Alive Timer (KAT) server at the VPN server side. This proposed solution for DPD is far better than an already existing solution that uses a DNS server for DPD since the DNS server faces several attacks consistently. Thus, the proposed solution for DPD is more secure against such vulnerable attacks