I am looking for VPN that I can use at work for uploading videos and casual surfing. What will IT dept see when I upload video through VPN?
They will see that you’re connecting to a VPN. You need to use Proton’s DNS for that, but not all companies allow the use of VPN. Be sure they allow both legally and technically (they could block certain type of network activities).
Just use your own phone with your own mobile data, not worth risking your job.
I’ll try to make this clear for you: Stop doing stupid sxxt while on the clock. Go with the adage anything you do on the corporate network or device they’re going to see or detect. If you’re using encrypted traffic that isn’t a part of the excluded firewall list someone is going to eventually come to your desk and tap you on the shoulder. It may not be right away. Sometimes they let you continue to be irresponsible so they have enough reason to terminate you when you become a “troublesome employee”. Don’t connect anything to your work pc or do anything on a work device. Use your own device with your own data plan. When you go to file for unemployment or sue over harassment that’s when you find out they were logging all the hours you spent on FB, downloading corn, using P2P sites, and playing games.
If you can’t afford an expensive data plan then try filing for one of those assistance plans (the inappropriately named “Obama phones”) if you’re an American. Also don’t enroll into any programs with your personal device or link corporate accounts such as your email. That’s generally when they sneak monitoring software on your device. If a job ever needed me to work remotely I used a dedicate laptop or small form factor PC and isolated all traffic on my own network and wiped the device once I left. Most employers don’t care about you occasionally surfing the web as long as you’re not spending an inordinate amount of time doing it but why on gawds earth would you use corporate bandwidth to upload videos. Re-read my first sentence… troublesome employee.
IT dept will see you’re connected to a VPN. They can know how much data is transferred and when but they can’t know what you’re doing unless they have a spyware on your device or something.
If it’s a company device you should make sure they don’t have a spyware installed or any “security” softwares they have.
Thanks everyone for effort answering questions. But let it put this way.
I have one spare private mobile phone, and I want it to use it on my company WiFi network to upload videos on youtube channel because it is super fast (uploads of cca 30GB videos). And on that network there is arround 10 people connected. Is it safe to do that and not be discovered with using Proton
Does the company have UEBA?
Proton does have a ASN, and usually header (packet info) can be read/detected from multiple sources like EDR, SIEM… and so on.
ill also add to this. If for some reason the IT isnt monitoring, We will see your giant Upload / Download. Which will be a telling sign that your doing something
best decision you will ever make: make yourself a live usb with persistance and use that on the device
or company networks if you don’t want your IT department knowing what you’re doing.
I thought that as long as you’re using your own device, with nothing running from the company, you would be safe. Or what would be the point of using a VPN on public Wi-Fi ? . I’m far from an expert on VPN’s or networks. So, just rechecking the info. because is good to know.
So, If your wifi requires a login they can tie to you that you are using a VPN. No they wont see the data unless they have some control of the device. They can block VPNs on the network however. If it is against your company’s policy to use personal devices you can likely be terminated for doing this or if what you’re trying to do something that would be against policy over the VPN you could be terminated.
Your choice in what you’re gonna do, but if you worry about your job if you were to do it without VPN then you should probably worry about it with VPN.
The measures they’re talking about are enterprise-level solutions dealing with internal corporate systems. Public wi-fi is way less secure and monitored, which is why - as an example - man-in-the-middle and spoofing attacks are such a concern using them.