VPN Kill Switch

The Importance of a VPN Kill Switch for Enhanced Security

The D-Network Kill Switch is a security feature that prevents your device from connecting to the internet in the event that your VPN connection fails unexpectedly.

Why would VPN fail?

The most common cause for VPN failure is a lost connection signal.

Loss of connection is the moment we all experience when we step just out of reach of a Wi-Fi router, or when a mobile data signal momentarily glitches as we travel between the reach of two cell towers.

Modern devices, such as computers and phones, are intelligently designed to detect these failures and reconnect to a next available route, such as the next cell tower, so that users hardly notice the difference.

The VPN danger in smart devices

Our smart devices are not designed to recognize that users are switching to VPN services in large numbers, which is why they search for the quickest available route to reconnect to the internet.

Unfortunately, this means that unless told otherwise, a phone or computer will take the shortest and fastest available connection to the internet, which will be a connection without using a VPN.

How our VPN Kill Switch works

Our kill switch continuously monitors your VPN connection for disruptions and blocks all internet traffic on your device when they occur. A user can then choose to re-establish the VPN or turn off the kill switch.

A VPN kill switch acts as a vigilant helper by continuously monitoring a VPN connection and ensuring the data line is constantly available, ready to act immediately on behalf of the user when it is not.

When it notices a disruption in the line, it immediately blocks all internet traffic, ensuring that the device cannot establish a new route to the internet, while informing the user that the VPN connection is lost.

Why use a VPN Kill Switch?

The most important reason to use a kill switch is to avoid accidentally sharing of a user's real IP address with their internet service provider, web destination, or the prying eyes of third parties.

Another very common usage of a VPN Kill Switch is on public Wi-Fi networks. Despite the widely known security risks associated with public Wi-Fi, many VPN users find themselves needing to rely on them.

Users in places like airports, shops, cafes, libraries, hotels, or restaurants are highly recommended to pay extra attention to installing and using a kill switch to secure and prevent the exposure of their data.