Protect your team wherever they work.
CyberFence encrypts every connection your remote employees make — from home offices to hotel WiFi — for $7.99/month per user. Start your Free Trial
## Why Remote Work Makes Small Businesses a Bigger Target
When your employees were in the office, all their traffic flowed through a single network you controlled. Now it flows through their home router, the coffee shop WiFi, the airport terminal, or a hotel business center.
The numbers show how badly that shift has hurt security posture:
- **78% of organizations** reported at least one security incident linked to remote work in 2025
- **Misconfigured or absent VPNs** led to 14% of all data leaks in remote work environments in 2025
- The average cost of a breach involving a remote worker is **$4.56 million** — and for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the average breach cost is **$3.31 million**
- **60% of small businesses** that experience a cyberattack close within six months
The most dangerous vector is not sophisticated hacking — it is employees connecting to unsecured networks without protection. When someone logs into your accounting software or sends a client contract over an open WiFi connection, that traffic is readable by anyone on the same network.
A VPN fixes this by encrypting the connection before it leaves the device.
## What a VPN Actually Does for Your Team
A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel between your employee's device and the internet. Any data passing through that tunnel — emails, file transfers, logins, video calls — is protected from interception.
For a small business, the practical benefits are:
**Encrypted traffic on any network.** Whether your employee is at home, at a client's office, or in an airport, their connection is protected by AES-256-GCM encryption. Someone sitting on the same WiFi network cannot read their traffic.
**Hidden IP address.** The employee's real IP address is replaced by the VPN server's address. This makes it harder for attackers to target specific employees or map your business's network.
**DNS-level threat blocking.** Not all VPNs include this, but CyberFence's Web Shield blocks malicious domains, phishing sites, and malware distribution points at the DNS level — before a connection is even established. This is especially valuable for remote workers who may not have the same email filtering they would in an office.
**Ad blocking built in.** Fewer ads means fewer ad-based malware delivery attempts, and faster page loads for your team.
## What a VPN Does Not Do
A VPN is not a complete security solution. Being clear about this helps you make smarter decisions about your overall setup.
A VPN does **not** protect against:
- Phishing attacks where an employee enters credentials on a fake site (though DNS blocking reduces this risk significantly)
- Malware already installed on the device
- Weak or reused passwords
- Unsecured cloud apps accessed by an authenticated but compromised account
Think of a VPN as securing the road your data travels, not the destination. You still need strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, and basic endpoint protection on every device.
## What Small Businesses Should Look for in a VPN
Not every VPN is built for business use. Consumer VPNs often lack the compliance documentation, logging policies, and operational transparency that a business needs. Here is what to evaluate:
### Zero-Logs Policy
If your VPN provider logs your employees' activity, that data can be subpoenaed, breached, or sold. A true zero-logs policy means the provider does not retain records of which sites your employees visited or when they connected.
CyberFence maintains a strict zero-logs policy. Nothing about your team's browsing activity is stored or shared.
### US-Based Operation
Where a VPN company operates matters as much as where its servers are located. A VPN operated in a country with mandatory data retention laws can be required to log and hand over user data regardless of its stated policy.
CyberFence is operated in the United States, under US law, with servers located in the US. There is no foreign corporate structure or offshore parent company in a data-sharing jurisdiction.
### Compliance Documentation
If your business handles healthcare data, financial records, or government contract information, your VPN needs to support your compliance posture. CyberFence supports HIPAA, NIST, CMMC, and SEC compliance requirements — with the documentation to back it up.
### AES-256-GCM Encryption
This is the encryption standard used by financial institutions and government agencies. It means that even if someone intercepts your traffic, they cannot decrypt it with any currently known method.
### Ease of Deployment
Small businesses do not have dedicated IT staff to manage a complex VPN rollout. Look for a solution your team can install and use in under a minute, across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
## Protecting Client Data Specifically
If your team handles client information — whether that is a law firm managing case files, an accounting firm handling tax data, or a marketing agency with access to client ad accounts — a VPN is a baseline protection measure.
An unencrypted connection to a client's portal exposes their data as well as yours. A breach that originates from your employee's device connecting over public WiFi can create legal liability even if your servers were never compromised.
For businesses subject to HIPAA (healthcare), PCI-DSS (payment card processing), or SOC 2 requirements, demonstrating that remote employees always connect through an encrypted, logged VPN is part of showing reasonable security controls.
CyberFence encrypts every connection your remote employees make — from home offices to hotel WiFi — for $7.99/month per user. Start your Free Trial
Compliance-ready VPN for your remote team.
CyberFence supports HIPAA, NIST, and CMMC documentation requirements at $7.35/month per user on the annual plan. See pricing and start your Free Trial
## How Much Does a Business VPN Cost?
The math is simple. CyberFence costs:
- **$7.99/month** on the monthly plan
- **$88.21/year** ($7.35/month) on the annual plan — saves 8%
Compare that to the average $120,000 ransomware recovery cost for a small business, or the $4.56 million average breach cost involving remote workers. Prevention runs 50 to 60 times cheaper than recovery.
For a five-person remote team, annual protection costs roughly $441. One avoided incident pays for years of coverage.
## Getting Your Team Set Up
CyberFence is designed for quick deployment without IT support:
1. **Sign up** at cyberfenceplatform.com — takes about 60 seconds
2. **Download** the app on each device (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android)
3. **Connect** — the app handles configuration automatically
4. **Set and forget** — CyberFence runs in the background on every connection
There is no complex configuration, no dedicated server to manage, and no ongoing maintenance from your team.
## The Bottom Line
Remote work is not going away, and the threats that come with it are getting more sophisticated. A VPN does not solve every security problem, but for a small business with remote employees, it closes the most common and most exploitable gap: unprotected connections on networks you do not control.
At $7.99/month, the cost of not acting is measured against breach costs that routinely exceed $3 million for businesses your size.
Start your Free Trial at CyberFence and get your team protected today.
CyberFence supports HIPAA, NIST, and CMMC documentation requirements at $7.35/month per user on the annual plan. See pricing and start your Free Trial