Whois & Analysis for privateinternetaccess.com

A virtual private network (VPN) is a virtualized extension of a private network across a public network, such as the Internet.

It enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.

Applications running across the VPN may therefore benefit from the functionality, security, and management of the private network.

Private Internet Access (PIA) is a personal VPN service.

It supports multiple VPN technologies such as PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, SOCKS5 and OpenVPN.

PIA offers several features:

The Register is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the site's publisher.

Drew Culllen is an owner, Linus Birtles the managing director and Andrew Orlowski is the Executive Editor.

Internet access is the process that enables individuals and organisations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, mobile devices, sometimes via computer networks.

Once connected to the Internet, users can access Internet services, such as email and the World Wide Web.

Internet service providers (ISPs) offer Internet access through various technologies that offer a wide range of data signaling rates (speeds).

Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection of computer systems from the theft or damage to the hardware, software or the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.