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Best VPN 2022 For Speed, Netflix & No Logging (Our #1 Picks)

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If you’re looking for a no-log VPN for your phone, PC, or home, then look no further: these are the best no-log VPN providers right now on the market right now. In order to generate this list, we tested over 30 of the most popular VPNs on the market. After careful deliberation, we finally managed to come up with several options that are detailed in full below… 

Top-Rated No Log VPNs

When it comes to VPNs, you have plenty of good options to choose from. But if you’re going to pay for a VPN, you don’t want “good” – you want great. And the difference between a “good” VPN and a “great” VPN is how we choose the options listed below.

With respect to overall download speeds, security, and platform performance, all of the VPNs listed below were exceptional. They’re also all 100% no-logs too which means they do not store ANY data about what you do while using their network.

This is important too, and it is the #1 reason why you should NOT use free VPNs – they harvest your data for profit. And when you’re looking to be more private online, you do not want this.

All of the VPNs listed below are very impressive. My personal favorite right now would be ExpressVPN. I do really like NordVPN though too – there really isn’t much to separate these two platforms.

If you want a properly inexpensive but very impressive VPN, you’ll want to check out PureVPN – it has some of the best prices in the game.

Comparison Table of Top VPN’s Features & Pricing

Pros:

  • 2000+ Servers
  • Very Cheap Monthly Fees
  • 100% No-Log
  • Split Tunnelling
  • Up To 5 Logins Per Account
  • 24/7 Support
  • Decent Speed Performance
  • Internet Kill Switch

Pros:

  • Safe & private connection
  • Multi-hop connection available
  • Available on many platforms
  • Good speed
  • Strong global server presence
  • Smooth streaming of geo-blocked content
  • Great prices
  • Smooth user experience

Pros:

  • TrustedServer Technology
  • Anonymous IP
  • Kill-Switch
  • Works With Netflix
  • Apps For Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac
  • Only VPN provider with designated router app
  • P2P services
  • 5 simultaneous connections
  • 3000+ servers in 160 locations

Best For Netflix

Pros:

  • 2000+ Servers
  • Very Cheap Monthly Fees

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How to avoid security blind spots when logging and monitoring

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Cybersecurity involves a balancing act between risk aversion and risk tolerance. Going too far to either extreme may increase cost and complexity, or worse: cause the inevitable business and compliance consequences of a successful cyberattack. The decisions that need to be made around logging and monitoring are no exception.

logging monitoring

Capturing all data from every device on the network can create bottlenecks, overwhelm log management, and obfuscate signs of network penetration, or malicious activity. Not capturing all the critical log data can result in monitoring that fails to identify attacks before they do damage or assist in forensics after the incident.

Getting logging and monitoring right is so important that it is listed among the Center for Internet Security’s critical security controls.

Failing to log creates blind spots

Failing to activate logging creates security blind spots in your network that will only become apparent after the fact (i.e., when an attack is successful). Every component of your extended infrastructure — on premises and remote — should be configured to generate appropriate audit events. These components include operating systems, system utilities, servers, workstations, networking equipment, and security systems (which include anti-malware, firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and VPNs).

This applies whether you run your own security information and event management (SIEM) solution for log management or use a managed SIEM with SOC-as-a-Service for 24/7 monitoring, alerting, and reporting. The SIEM relies on log data feeds to provide protection. It can’t see alerts on what’s not being logged. Responsibility for making devices and apps visible often falls outside of the security organization.

For example, failure to activate logging can happen if there is a “set it and forget it” mindset. The reality is that networks are always changing. New endpoint devices are continually being added and removed due to personnel changes, addition of new locations, flexible work programs that let employees work from home, new mobility solutions, and the like.

Assuming that new apps and devices — including new cloud infrastructure…

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Mobile device event logging: A panacea for the digital endemic

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This content is provided by Zimperium.

Malware, like ransomware and spyware, is rampant in federal networks. If agencies have learned nothing else in the last year, they have realized that they currently face a digital endemic. With mobile security as the Achilles heel of Zero Trust, mobile event logging can be a preventive care measure protecting federal network digital health. Just like cancer screenings can give preventative insights into physical health, mobile event logging acts as a digital health screening to detect and prevent potential threats to federal networks.

Digital Device Health Screening by Maturing Event Logging

August 27, 2021, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memorandum M-21-31 outlines a “Maturity Model for Event Log Management.”

The memorandum gives four maturity levels defined as:

  • EL0 Ineffective: Logging requirements of highest criticality are either not met or only partially met
  • EL1 Basic: Only logging requirements of highest criticality are met
  • EL2 Intermediate: Logging requirements of the highest and intermediate criticality are met
  • EL3 Advanced: Logging requirements at all criticality levels are met

At the EL1 Basic level, agencies need to ensure that they have mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) server log alerts.

Further, agencies need to collect active and cold data storage logs for mobile devices and MTD agents. Under the technical details section, the data collected includes:

  • General
  • Device
  • Application
  • Device policy settings
  • Device configurations
  • Network configurations
  • Event/Audit/Crash logs
  • MTD agent information

The MTD agent information gets even more specific, pointing out that the event logging needs to include:

  • Agent Activation Status
  • Threat Detection of Variety of Vulns
  • Phishing Protection Status
  • Tampering of Agent, App, or System
  • Privilege Escalation
  • MITM Activities
  • Remediation Actions Taken
  • Last Time Device Synched with Enterprise Systems

All of this makes sense as mobile threats continue to increase exponentially. After all, mobile is often the most vulnerable endpoint, which makes threat actors want to target it. As an…

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The US Used the Patriot Act to Justify Logging Website Visitors

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The two stories that have dominated headlines in the US in 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic and the presidential election, were still in the news this week as virus cases and death tolls rise and the promise of a vaccine looms. New research, though, indicates that phishers have been targeting vaccine development groups and particularly organizations that work on the global cold chain, which will be crucial for storing and shipping vaccine doses worldwide. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has continued to spread falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the validity of his loss to president-elect Joe Biden. On Tuesday, though, US attorney general William Barr went on record saying that the Justice Department “has not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” a crucial pronouncement that leaves the Trump reelection campaign with even fewer options to contest the result.

A “magical bug” in iOS, now patched, could have let an attacker take full control of any iPhones in the hacker’s Wi-Fi range and then automatically worm the infection to other nearby devices. Startups are rushing to develop tools that can vet artificial intelligence systems to find vulnerabilities and loopholes before they can be exploited. And the hackers behind the notorious botnet TrickBot have added malware capabilities to check if a target device’s firmware is vulnerable to attack and, if so, burrow deeper for long-term persistence.

In good news, a coalition of internet infrastructure groups is making progress securing the foundational internet data-routing system known as Border Gateway Protocol. And as Google looks to offer end-to-end encryption in the RCS messaging protocol, it plans to use the open source Signal Protocol, which already underpins secure messaging app Signal as well as giants like WhatsApp. Now that it may roll out to Android’s 2 billion users, we took a look at how the protocol works and what you need to know about it.

And there’s more. Every Saturday we round up the security and privacy stories that we didn’t break or report on in depth but think you should know about. Click on the headlines to read them, and stay safe out there.

The US government has…

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