Also, never assume that by using your corporate VPN that ALL of your traffic will be encrypted. That is the best way to set it up but many companies still only encrypt business traffic and not web traffic (including personal e-mail). Double check with your IT folk, if they say that they encrypt everything they you are fine (another way they might say this is that they do not allow split tunneling). Otherwise if they don't encrypt everything (allowing split tunneling) your personal traffic is out in the open and you need to protect it as the article suggests.

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