Secure Access From Public Networks With iTwin Connect

If you travel with a laptop and have to use public access to the Internet, you often wonder just how secure that connection actually is. Using WiFi connections has been something of conversation over the past few years because of hacks that people have done to capture what you are sending to the web. It is something that would concern someone using a company web site where you are not connected over a secure connection such as VPN accessing company data. But there is now something you can use to insure your privacy and protect yourself.

The iTwin Connect from iTwin.com is a product solution which you may be interested in. This will provide you with your own private VPN which has zero configurations for you to make for it to work. Simplicity is the beauty of this product which has two halves to it as you can see. Your start the process by plugging them together and then inserting one USB end into your home computer. This sets up your home computer as the base and sets the necessary VPN security connections. You then disconnect the iTwin Connect USB end that is not plugged into your computer and that goes with you as you travel. The iTwin Connect piece in your home computer stays there.

The requirements for the home computer using the iTwin Connect is that it be a Windows based computer. A Mac solution should be available in Q2 this year, but there is no word on a Linux version at this point in time. When you are away from home and want to connect securely on a public network, you insert the iTwin Connect USB part you are carrying with you and select the "Teleport Me" function which you will then see. At this point, all your Web activity is encrypted and going through your home computer, not out in the public network where someone might try and grab it. This alone is well worth the price of the product at $129.

But, what if your home computer is not on at the time? You have an option to connect to another host which iTwin Connect can provide with their on dedicated servers in the US, Europe and Asia if the need arises. There are other features you can take advantage of with the iTwin Connect, such as having the ability to remotely connect to your home computer desktop. And if that does not make this a real bargain, if you are connecting to your home computer, you will have the ability to transfer files back and forth. Another great feature on a small and portable product.

The iTwin Connect is a connection from a computer to a computer and in a world which is quickly moving to be tablet centric when you are traveling, it misses a key part of the population which could really benefit from this kind of technology. If they could deal with the proliferation of tablets and provide for secure access with the iTwin Connect over public networks, they would have an immediate success with the tablet market.