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When using Wi-Fi hot spots, don't throw caution to the wind.

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This story appears in the July 2004 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

hot spots are a great convenience for travelingentrepreneurs and their employees. But it's up to you to makesure your data is safe when you're signing on from distantlocales. has several basic elements. Equippingyourself and your mobile employees with antivirus, firewall,message and VPN software is optimal.

If you can't afford VPN capabilities, a new option isavailable from third-party provider HotSpotVPN (www.hotspotvpn.com), which will encrypt and cloak youractivity for only $8.88 per month, per user. That can tide you overuntil you set up VPN tunnels of your own or if your employees onlyoccasionally make use of Wi-Fi hot spots.

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