According to Mr. Amitabh Singhal, Director, Telxess Consulting Services and former President of Internet Service Providers Association of India,  It’s an extraordinary and hare-brained idea to block VPNs. It is going to be counter-productive, especially for businesses. During Covid, most organizations, domestic or global, worked from home. All have been using VPNs to secure their network for conducting businesses remotely. To ban VPN will set a bad precedent and destroy the internet as a medium to conduct business safely.

Every company is using a VPN-based solution nowadays. Also, the entire cloud industry is shifting to the cloud-plus-VPN-based hybrid model,” Sunny Nehra, Admin, Hacks and Security, and an ethical hacker. Moreover, a ban contradicts the government’s relaxation on connectivity norms for VPN use for other sectors like BPOs.

Mr. Singhal added, “ There are better ways for the government to ensure safety. The committee is just using the ploy of security to clamp down on something. I don’t think this is a valid argument because some anti-social elements use VPNs to hide their identity. How do you expect companies depending on the internet to conduct their global and local businesses securely while working under this ban?”

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