So how TrueVPN Uses AI in Cybersecurity Research and Why?
We will talk about it in a minute, Keep reading.

Background

Cyber criminals pose a threat to all manner of organizations and businesses, and the customers and consumers who use them. Some of the numbers involved in the largest data breaches are staggering, with personal data concerning hundreds of thousands of individuals being leaked – each one potentially a new victim of fraud and other cybercrime.

Networking Security

Cyber crimes are not just limited to softwares installed on your computer or your smart-phone, Take traffic cameras in development countries as example, These cameras are powered with AI-based facial recognition software, of course the operation of these kind of systems depends on syncing data between cameras, software in the cloud, and here’s the issue.

What if these cloud infrastructures got hacked? Whoops!.
Of course, These systems are secured enough against criminals, but it’s really hard for ITs to track each packet passes through the network and of course more security means less functionality, and less security means more functionality!

Not to mention the risks of using a public WiFi network, And we already talked about The Risks of using a public WiFi network in other article

Privacy

For example, If you reading this you been tracked and you probably don’t even know it.
You probably thinking, Who cares? i’m not important. They can watch what they wants ..etc

That is what they wants you to believe. but the truth is. What if it’s for more than just ads or sales? What if there’s much larger scheme in place? That’s carefully put together to manipulate what you see, what you hear, and believe. In other words, You’re being brain watched.

Your data is being sold is not the only problem.

It’s also being sold for other reasons, worst reasons, You’re being profiled.
Wether it be political persuasion or what the men in black suits want people of your type to be looking at. But online is .. It’s Ultimate control, Rule of our society, Censorship and manipulation.

AI in Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are playing an increasing role in cybersecurity, with security tools analyzing data from millions of cyber incidents, and using it to identify potential threats — an employee account acting strangely by clicking on phishing links, for example, or a new variant of malware or a bad behavior on a network.

Today, TrueVPN started to use an AI based algorithm to improve network security and user’s privacy, and of course the functionality of the algorithm only works on the device.

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By using AI-based algorithm, we can secure our users from cyber threads, fraud, hackers and even data leaks, we will talk about how TrueVPN Uses AI in Cybersecurity Research in this article.

TrueVPN’s AI

TrueVPN AI is powered by Skytells’s DeepBrain AI as built-in feature included with every version of TrueVPN app, With TrueVPN AI your Internet traffic will be even more secure: A neural network based on the device continuously analyzes current Internet routing. Based on this our algorithm determines the most secure route through the Internet.

Benefits from TrueVPN’s built-in AI

• Chooses the VPN server closest to the destination
• Increasing TrueVPN’s Firewall protection.
• Identifying anomalies in network traffic or user behavior.
• Traffic stays in the encrypted VPN network as long as possible
• External VPN IP changes depending on the destination
• In the best case, the traffic is not exposed to the Internet at all
• The number of attack points is greatly reduced
• Tracking users is more difficult
• Mitigating the cybersecurity skills gap
• Detecting online and other fraud
• Dynamic: The algorithm learns and reacts if routing changes

Your data is sent encrypted from one VPN server to the next. That means that the traffic outside the strongly encrypted VPN network is minimized. Additionally, since routing on the Internet is dynamic and changes regularly, TrueVPN AI automatically analyzes the current routing and determines the shortest route to the target server. Because of this, it is also not easily possible to predict which routes your traffic is using.

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TrueVPN App is available for the following platforms

• Mac OS X
• iPhone
• iPad
• iPod Touch

Conclusion

AI is very useful in cybersecurity, If you looking for a VPN with high-end encryption and premium features, TrueVPN is your best choice, You must use a VPN to protect your online activity, A VPN is a big must these days specially for people who uses public WiFi networks.

FAQ

The government will totally control the people’s behavior over the internet by using the technology that won’t allow them to exercise their online privacy rights or personal freedom on the internet. One of the methods used by the restrictive government to block your online traffic is by using a system called DPI or Deep Packet Inspection.

What the DPI system is doing is that it will analyze the internet traffic that is coming through your ISP. It will identify your traffic type and either allow the traffic to reach the internet or block it. If you are using the regular ISP traffic, the system will allow you to access the internet, while if you are using the VPN traffic, the system can recognize it and block your connection from reaching the internet. This is an advanced traffic monitoring system installed by the restrictive government to prevent people from using private connections and force them to follow the government’s internet regulations.

Background

As TrueVPN focuses on security and privacy, It’s clear that DPI is a huge issue!
When talking about privacy and security, We must consider that DPI that performed by some countries for VPN blocking or any other political reason comes against user’s privacy.

Why we consider it as a huge privacy issue?
Alright, to answer that, we need to understand how Deep Packet Inspection works.

Well, Deep packet inspection evaluates the data part and the header of a packet that is transmitted through an inspection point, weeding out any non-compliance to protocol, spam, viruses, intrusions, and any other defined criteria to block the packet from passing through the inspection point.

Deep packet inspection can examine the content of messages and identify the specific application or service it comes from. In addition, filters can be programmed to look for and reroute network traffic from a specific Internet Protocol (IP) address range or a certain online service like Facebook.

So by looking to the image above, We can see that DPI acts like MITM Attacks, So the encrypted user’s traffic has to be decrypted to read its data then re-encrypt it again and re-send the encrypted data to the CA. So we MUST consider that this is a huge issue of user’s privacy.

HOW TRUEVPN SOLVED THE ISSUE?

Ok, At TrueVPN we believe deeply in security and user privacy, Every user has rights to privacy, because we believe that privacy is a human right and it should be respected.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Gabriel García Márquez

For a long while, TrueVPN was trying to solve this issue and bypassing DPI without redirecting user’s traffic or missing with CA. If you do not know what is that means, So you must have a little knowledge of Networking.

TRUEVPN RESEARCH

Based on our Research, We’ve developed an AI tool to analyze the ISP’s connection policies before establishing the connection, by performing that, we can check if the ISP blocks the used VPN protocol by the user or recently performed Deep Packet Inspection or Bandwidth Throttling based on analytics data. This tool is powered by Skytells’s latest AI, and its powerful enough to analyze these policies.

Of course these tools are deployed on TrueVPN’s iOS App for version 2.5 and later.

HOW IT WORKS?

When you Enable Policy Checks on TrueVPN, The app will perform some checks before establishing the VPN connection, And try to solve any detected issues regarding the ISP or the living country if possible.

Lets give it an example, Imagine of a user named Doe, lives in country X, while country X is performing a Deep Packet Inspection targeting VPN providers to crack em down, So, When the users opens the VPN app and taps connect, Here’s what’s going to happen in the background

1. User Taps or Clicks (Connect to a VPN)
2. The VPN app will choose the VPN protocol if it not set by user.
3. The App chooses iKEv2 or IPSec
4. The app begins to connect using IKEv2 or IPSec
5. The App receives connection timeout message

And here’s why, When the App tries to choose the protocol on the 2nd step, it doesn’t check if the protocol has an issue regarding VPN Blocking in the current location or not, so it may ends up with connection timeout if it fails to connect.

But, by using an analytics tools based on research such as Policy Checks Mechanisms TrueVPN will perform the following steps regarding the connection.

1. User Taps or Clicks on (Connect to a VPN)
2. TrueVPN performs some checks on user’s connection
3. If there’s an issue regarding the connection (See Image), The app tries to solve it first.
4. After solving the issue, The app will choose an obfuscated protocol
5. The app begins to connect using obfuscated protocol powered with proxy tunnel
6. The App receives success response from server.

So by performing that, TrueVPN will only use a custom obfuscated protocols when needed, and these protocols are empowered by proxy tunnel to prevent DPI detection, And finally the app can bypass the VPN Blocking.

POLICY CHECKS FAQs

Here are some answers related to this feature.

Is Policy Checks Feature Free?
Yes, This feature is free.

Should in use TrueVPN with Policy Checks?
If you’re living in a country cracks down VPN connectivity or recently performed DPI, You must enable this feature.

Will This Decrease or Increase Connection Speed?
Of course no, This feature are just a mechanisms, designed to perform some analytics on ISP and connection before you connect to a VPN.

Conclusion

If you live in one of the countries who have issues with VPN Providers and tries to crack them down by blocking VPN protocols or performing DPI, Then TrueVPN is your best choice, because the app can bypass that easily.