{"id":5915,"date":"2013-02-15T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/feb\/15\/5-reasons-vpns-suck-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:30:00","slug":"5-reasons-vpns-suck-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/5-reasons-vpns-suck-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons VPNs suck in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve been around the block a few times, you&rsquo;re probably wondering why the title of this post isn&rsquo;t, <em>50 Reasons VPNs Suck in the Cloud.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p> VPNs have long been the bane of both administrators and users (and lets not forget, support). They&rsquo;re clunky, complex, and costly, and the same is true when they&rsquo;re deployed to secure cloud access. <\/p>\n<p> Today, VPNs are increasingly used to connect to cloud computing resources. Either by routing traffic back through the corporate network or direct to the cloud provider, VPNs offer authentication and transport-layer encryption to keep the bad guys out and sensitive information secure. But at what cost? <\/p>\n<p> Both VPN configurations (corporate and provider) are complex to set up, require client agents with loads of support, and can be expensive to maintain. Arguably, there&rsquo;s room for &ndash; and exists &ndash; a better approach to securing access to cloud servers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;ve been around the block a few times, you&rsquo;re probably wondering why the title of this post isn&rsquo;t, 50 Reasons VPNs Suck in the Cloud.  VPNs have long been the bane of both administrators and users (and lets not forget, support)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}