Comment on How well can an employer be certain of a remote employee's geographical location?
BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 6 months agoYour cybersecurity team is going to be annoyed with you using a VPN if you have one. Any monitoring they have will probably have something that will ping on using common VPNs, but at most companies, consequences there likely won't make it to HR. May make it to your manager though if they think it's a sign of compromise.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ez-Pz, cheap VPS + VPN server
Or I think there are also VPNs that advertise using “residential IPs”, I know that’s a thing with SOCKS proxy services.
BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 6 months ago
Yeah, common VPSes are monitored too, it's a very easy add. Alert on IP ranges from a publicly maintained and easy to find list is not a hard ask. If you ran it through AWS, it would probably pass a lot of basic checks. Using residential IPs will probably get you a bit of time, but I can't imagine there being a good way to do that without it being very hard for the VPN provider to keep up and very easy for a security company to just make a new list of IPs and assume the whole range is bad.
Your best defense here though is that your cybersecurity team probably doesn't care that you're doing this once it's determined that you aren't a malicious actor as long as you aren't creating too many alerts.