What is a personal hotspot shield?

In order to protect confidential data large business outfits their employees with corporate backed VPN's. A VPN creates a secure tunnel between you and a very safe server using strong encryption to protect you and your information. If you think of the local network, or even the internet, as a large pipe full of everyone's shared data then you can imagine the VPN as being a steel pipe within that pipe that contains only your data and keeps everyone else's out.

Everyone needs this type of protection. Especially so when using wireless hotspots, shared networks or any other unsecure internet access that is not completely controlled by the user. Large companies with computer departments can easily create these services for their employees. A personal hotspot shield is a VPN service created for the average person.  Your hotspot shield should have all the strengths and features of the ones the corporations and government uses.

Are all personal hotspot shield's created the same?

There are a few personal hotspot shield's available to the public today -- from free to very expensive. As the saying goes, if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is.  Therefore we advise against free VPN. While accepting their terms for use you usually are agreeing to let them look at your data for marketing purposes. In essence you are giving them an exclusive license to look at your personal data. That's not exactly the definition of security in most peoples minds.

Some services are built on unsecure servers located in all sorts of locations. The thing that makes a VPN secure is knowing that the server you are connecting to is a secure server. If it's not, then there's no point to it. Anybody with the know-how can take a desktop computer at home and set up a VPN and sell subscriptions but then you'd simply have a secure connection to a very unsecure server.

Tell me why I need this?

The risk of hackers being able to access your data has become a major epidemic. The information on how to do so is freely available on the internet and takes very little time. The large number of people using wireless hotspots along with the ease of stealing your information is what has driven this epidemic. The personal hotspot shield solves this and other security issues.

Where do I get one?

We suggest Surf Bouncer personal hotspot shield service. It is highly reliable and secure. They report that all of their servers are hosted and maintained by Amazon which makes their infrastructure virtually indestructible and secure.   They can be found at www.surfbouncer.com.