VPN is needed to keep business going, banning could hurt industry: experts

Their take: VPNs are used to keep business networks secure; Legal safeguards to catch criminals and miscreants already exist

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs' recent suggestion to permanently block the use of virtual private networks (VPN), if taken forward and formalised, will not be in the best interests of businesses, who have benefitted immensely from the use of this technology over the course of the pandemic. 

A VPN, as described by Kaspersky, is "a means to encrypt internet traffic and disguise a user's online identity. This makes it more difficult for third parties to track their activities online and steal data. The encryption takes place in real time, and hides the user's IP address".

As a result,