{"id":6456,"date":"2016-10-12T06:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2017-09-24T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:40:23","slug":"why-do-you-need-a-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/why-do-you-need-a-vpn\/6456\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do you need a VPN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here on Kaspersky Daily, you can find four detailed articles that explain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/vpn-explained\/11175\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">what exactly a virtual private network (VPN) is<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/vpns-use\/1788\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">why people use VPNs<\/a>, describe the different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/vpn-implementations\/11531\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ways to implement virtual private networking<\/a>, and discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/vpn-hardships\/11846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">other related topics<\/a>. But not all of our readers want to dig so deep. Many would prefer a very brief explanation \u2014 just one sentence answering the key questions: What is a VPN and why should I use one?<\/p>\n<p>We honestly think it\u2019s impossible to explain everything in one sentence \u2014 nobody can cover in a few words what virtual private networks are, how they work, and why they are so useful. So we decided to focus on one important question \u2014 \u201cWhy do you need a VPN?\u201d \u2014 and explain everything in one picture.<\/p>\n<p>We think that it clearly shows the difference in the routes your data takes when using and not using VPN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2016\/10\/05085758\/vpn-explained-in-one-picture-1-1024x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13228\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2016\/10\/05085758\/vpn-explained-in-one-picture-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Why do you need a VPN?\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here on Kaspersky Daily, you can find four detailed articles that explain what exactly a virtual private network (VPN) is and why people use VPNs, describe the different ways to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":6457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2195],"tags":[271,1285,1891,1867,684],"class_list":{"0":"post-6456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-special-projects","9":"tag-infographic","10":"tag-networks","11":"tag-pictures","12":"tag-secure-connection","13":"tag-vpn"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/why-do-you-need-a-vpn\/6456\/"},{"hreflang":"zh","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.cn\/blog\/why-do-you-need-a-vpn\/4905\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/tag\/infographic\/","name":"infographic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7707,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions\/7707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}