A municipal RF policy asks when VPN-over-Wi-Fi is still relevant for city staff. What guidance fits an OSWP-style encryption assessment?
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Short Explanation
A VPN is a sealed briefcase you carry across a sketchy café table—it helps on open or untrusted Wi-Fi. It is not permission to leave the city's own WLAN unlocked. Design the air right first, then add VPN where the path is still hostile.
Full Explanation
Virtual private networks provide an additional confidentiality and integrity layer for traffic traversing untrusted or open wireless paths, including guest or public segments. They complement—but do not substitute for—correct SSID encryption, AKM selection, and network segmentation on municipal WLANs. Assessors should keep VPN guidance in the complementary-controls column rather than treating it as a cure for weak Wi-Fi crypto.