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Cybersecurity for small businesses: Using a VPN to protect your data

Small businesses are vulnerable to data breaches and hackers. Here are 5 inexpensive VPNs you can use to protect client information.

By Denny Jacob | Updated on April 06, 2017

In the digital world, our technology is an extension of ourselves. Our personalities, friendships and much more are on the internet and in the cloud, especially for small businesses. In many cases, the small business owner blurs the lines between personal and professional, using social media to reach potential clients as well as existing customers. 

Although most of us are comfortable with certain information being public, we usually don’t reveal private information — and we’d like to keep it that way. But the House of Representatives recently voted to repeal internet privacy protections put in place by the Federal Communications Commissioner under the Obama Administration. The Trump administration, which has signaled its support in the past, signed the bill, effective April 3. 

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