Ankura Consulting Group LLC
14 June 2022
Ankura Consulting Group LLC
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Certain mandates to make VPN service providers retain logs may
not work as planned. VPN service providers have a global footprint
and their India presence is mainly focused on providing users in
other countries to navigate the internet as a user from India. This
is used predominantly by overseas Indians to browse OTT platforms
in India.
A cybercriminal planning an attack in India would not
necessarily need a VPN server in India. The attacker can use an
overseas server or use any other compromised machines in India that
are widely available to such criminals.
Forcing VPN service providers to retain logs may result in them
packing up their India servers but they will continue to offer VPN
services through their overseas servers and the issue largely
remain unaddressed.
On the contrary, even if they start logging from their India
servers, attackers can still use the overseas servers of VPN
service providers which will remain outside the purview of Indian
authorities.
Originally Published 24 May 2022
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