eduVPN - making the Internet safer


eduVPN offers staff, researchers and students an easy and secure connection to the Internet wherever they are
eduVPN - making the Internet safer

We don't always have eduroam available, and public wireless networks can be unsafe: while the free, public WiFi that's available in shopping malls, restaurants, and in taxi ranks might look attractive, their convenience and popularity mean they're also very attractive to cybercriminals. Every time you use one, you might open your online activity and personal data up to a variety of threats including eavesdropping, password theft, malware distribution, and worse. There's even a chance you could have logged on to a malicious hotspot that just looked like the one you were expecting.

eduVPN solves this by creating a so-called Virtual Private Network (VPN) — a secure, encrypted tunnel between your laptop or smartphone and a central server — that protects your Internet traffic from prying eyes. It's just like the commercial VPN solutions you see advertised, but it is operated by the same people who bring you eduroam and is available for free to staff, students and researchers from participating higher educational institutions.